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Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

You're reading from  Cybersecurity Career Master Plan

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801073561
Pages 280 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (4):
Dr. Gerald Auger Dr. Gerald Auger
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Jaclyn “Jax” Scott Jaclyn “Jax” Scott
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Jonathan Helmus Jonathan Helmus
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Kim Nguyen Kim Nguyen
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Cybersecurity
2. Chapter 1: New Career in Cyber… "Who Dis?" 3. Chapter 2: Which Career Field Is Best for You? 4. Section 2: Your Path into the Industry
5. Chapter 3: Different Strokes for Different Folks 6. Chapter 4: Exploring Certifications and College 7. Chapter 5: Getting Hands-On Experience with No Experience 8. Chapter 6: Time to Brand Yourself – Not the Burning Type 9. Chapter 7: How to Land a Jay-Oh-Bee! 10. Section 3: Now You're in; Time to Level Up!
11. Chapter 8: Giving Back to Others and Yourself 12. Chapter 9: Trusting the Process 13. Assessments 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the top prominent cybersecurity domains

Despite the diverse number of subfields, in this book, we'll concentrate on the most in-demand areas of each domain shown in the preceding section, which are listed in the following table. Note that each domain has several areas that are equally in demand. However, since it is not practical to list all of them, only some have been chosen:

Table 2.1 – In-demand areas of domains

Let's simplify and focus our mind map view so that it mirrors this chapter's topic, like so:

Figure 2.2 – Cybersecurity domains

In this section, we learned that cybersecurity is a broad field that contains many sub-fields of different focuses. The sub-fields we are going to work on are Risk Assessment, Governance, Threat Intelligence, Security Operation, Security Architecture, and cybersecurity Education, respectively. In the upcoming sections, each of these domains will be closely...

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