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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!

Exploring the different social media platforms

"In today's world, social media is the primary platform for digital marketing, thanks to the 3.80 billion social media users as of January 2020. That is more than a third of the earth's entire population!"

– TechMagnate.com

Is it just me, or does it feel like every week or month there is a new social media app? I cannot keep up, and neither should you. I will teach you how to be strategic in your branding by picking one, maybe two, platforms to focus on and then expanding.

First, we will review some of the leading social media platforms. There are many, so we will focus on the ones we recommend for cyber branding

In this order, we are going to review Twitter, Discord, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. This is not an all-inclusive list.

At the end of this section, you will be provided with a social media summary to help you decide on the best 1-2 platforms that fit your brand and audience.

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