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jot down notes about cyber security career

cyber-security-career

jot down notes about cyber security career

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Risk Qualificatioon from MetworkChuck

ITPRO TV is spruiked by as a great course

CompTIA A+ - for foundation IT skills CompTIA Security+ - many US government jobs require it

Networking!

  • CompTIA Network+
  • Cisco CCNA - it's sounds very practical and most vendor's copy cisco anyway

Comptia Linux+ - but not important

Coding!

CompTIA Pentest+ eJPT

OSCP - hacking

Others

risk quantification (which technically falls under security GRC).

https://owasp.org/

TryHackMe.com

https://infosec-conferences.com/

as an entry level candidate I recommend A+ -> Network+ -> Security+

Useful post on reddit

Two books I recommend:

Dark Territory by Fred Kaplan

You'll See This Message When It's Too Late by Josephine Wolff

TryHackMe: Check out their Introduction to Cyber Security

YouTube Channels:

Simply Cyber

Josh Madakor

Certifications: Security+ from CompTIA

cyber-learning

Learning Cyber Risk

Top 5 skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4y9c7w2JQ

  1. VMs
  2. command line
  3. System Admin
  4. Networking (heart and soul of it all) TCP/IP OSI
  5. Personal digital security