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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!

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at some technical challenges. Regardless of the industry, all businesses need cybersecurity-minded professionals that are informed about evolving threats and attacks to be able to inform the business about dynamic risk and how to best mitigate it while continuing to enable the business to succeed. It's important to know how to speak to the business side, not just IT. This is critical in the private sector especially.

We've talked about many different industries, sectors, and business types in this chapter. You can get general cybersecurity knowledge and break into any of these areas and have a fruitful career, but there are industry-focused cybersecurity certifications and educational avenues that can help you stand out as the best candidate for a job, shortcut your path to having the knowledge to perform the work in that sector, and give you the skills to have an impact.

In the next chapter, Jon is going to share with you exactly...