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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

By : Dr. Gerald Auger, Jaclyn “Jax” Scott, Jonathan Helmus, Kim Nguyen
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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

4.6 (34)
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!

Understanding the cybersecurity job market

In this section, I will show you how to use open source intelligence (OSINT) to find the right cybersecurity jobs, companies, and other aspects that require research when you're looking for a job. To get started with this, let's take a look at the different employment platforms you can use to search for jobs. Then, we'll look at what information to search for when job hunting.

Employment platforms

First things first, to land a job, we need to find one. There are many online and free job search platforms out there, such as Glassdoor, LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed, Google, ZipRecruiter, CareerBuilder, and so on. These platforms are a good start for you to get familiar with what job search engines look like. At the same time, check out other platforms that are cybersecurity job focused, such as infosec-job.com or cybersecjob.com, and so on.

In the beginning, expect to spend some time registering for accounts with those platforms...

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