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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
4
Section 2: Your Path into the Industry
10
Section 3: Now You're in; Time to Level Up!

Guarding all the doors

There are many, many skills that cybersecurity defenders can learn about to be more proficient at their job. This section will teach you about defensive skill development through analyzing actual malicious network traffic for indicators of compromise and interesting attributes.

There are whole books dedicated to just learning about blue team skills. This section of this book covers just a few of those many skills, but it is intended to give you a good taste of that world and to give you practical hands-on experience. We will gain some experience with Wireshark, a network traffic analysis tool, and take a brief look at malware analysis.

Wireshark is a network analysis tool that every cybersecurity professional should be familiar with, especially if you're going to be a blue team or a security operations analyst. Wireshark analyzes network packet capture (PCAP) files. PCAP files are captured network traffic files.

Wireshark has a nice, clean graphical...