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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!

Introducing cloud platforms as an explosive cybersecurity opportunity growth area

Let's spend some time talking about cloud security. The last 10 years have seen a massive paradigm shift in the traditional approach any business has had to support their information technology needs. Traditionally, businesses would have data centers, servers, and clients. All this (on-site) infrastructure was housed within their own environment. They'd have to hire networking staff, application staff, server administrators, database administrators, and so on in order to maintain the environment to allow their business to actually operate. The advent of the cloud paradigm has empowered organizations to migrate or offload infrastructure to these cloud providers.

As a brief primer on cloud service providers, the three big cloud service providers currently are Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Microsoft Azure. There are different types of cloud service offerings also. There is Infrastructure...