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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

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

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!

Alert! Checking out blue teaming certifications

Before we dive into the certifications, let's quickly mention what blue teaming is. As mentioned in the previous section, red teaming is comprised of individuals who hack systems to illustrate the organizational impact based on vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in the target system. With that in mind, blue teaming can be thought of as the exact opposite.

Blue teaming consists of a team, and a department, of professionals who monitor the security of the systems they work for. This means consistently looking for alerts and determining alerts as incidents, false positives, or false negatives.

Sometimes you may hear these words and phrases used with blue teaming:

  • Incident response
  • Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT)
  • Operation la Operations (SOC)
  • Threat hunting

One of the interesting hot topics coming up with blue teaming is threat hunting. Threat hunting consists of a company employed to go...