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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

By : Dr. Gerald Auger, Jaclyn “Jax” Scott, Jonathan Helmus, Kim Nguyen
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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

By: Dr. Gerald Auger, Jaclyn “Jax” Scott, Jonathan Helmus, Kim Nguyen

Overview of this book

Cybersecurity is an emerging career trend and will continue to become increasingly important. Despite the lucrative pay and significant career growth opportunities, many people are unsure of how to get started. This book is designed by leading industry experts to help you enter the world of cybersecurity with confidence, covering everything from gaining the right certification to tips and tools for finding your first job. The book starts by helping you gain a foundational understanding of cybersecurity, covering cyber law, cyber policy, and frameworks. Next, you’ll focus on how to choose the career field best suited to you from options such as security operations, penetration testing, and risk analysis. The book also guides you through the different certification options as well as the pros and cons of a formal college education versus formal certificate courses. Later, you’ll discover the importance of defining and understanding your brand. Finally, you’ll get up to speed with different career paths and learning opportunities. By the end of this cyber book, you will have gained the knowledge you need to clearly define your career path and develop goals relating to career progression.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Getting Started with Cybersecurity
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Section 2: Your Path into the Industry
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Section 3: Now You're in; Time to Level Up!

Guiding you on how to choose a career

Before deciding on your favorite cybersecurity path, let's learn how to determine if any field is right for you. The following are some recommendations to help you identify your career path:

  • Find your passion: Believe it or not, to be successful and satisfied with any career, you need to like it first. With that in mind, find things that interest you, keep you excited, and that you can do for a long time without feeling fed up.

    For example, people who like to explore and question things tend to go for science-related fields, since the nature of those fields is to scout for new findings and discover the root causes of things.

  • Identify your strengths: Knowing what you are good at and leveraging them is also a good way to go about finding the best fit career for you. For example, if you are not good at arts and design but very good with math, why compete with people who are masters of design? Instead, take advantage of your mathematical...