Summary

Historically, many roles that make up the cybersecurity workforce are just cyber representations of roles that have existed in other ways throughout history. This understanding is vital because while technology may change, the skills that make workers in the more traditional roles effective in their daily work are the same skills that make their digital counterparts effective. Too often, people think of cybersecurity as a mysterious world that is difficult to understand. Hopefully, this stroll through the introductory concepts of cybersecurity, common vulnerabilities, and workforce roles has started to remove some of the fog and mystery surrounding this concept of cybersecurity.

From the security analysts monitoring your network to the incident responders saving the day after a breach, every role in cybersecurity is essential to keeping our digital world secure. In the next chapters, we’ll dive deeper into these roles and what you can do to protect yourself and your organization from the ever-evolving cyber threats.

In Chapter 2, Decoding the Cyber Lexicon: A Beginner’s Guide to Essential Terminology, we will begin to decipher some of the language used in the cybersecurity community. If there were terms and concepts covered in this chapter that you wanted to understand better, then you will enjoy what is coming up.

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