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nawlinsnfinest said:
I been doing physical security but that's fading away so to speak. Cybersecurity
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Youre gonna wanna start with Sec+ since it's entry level cybersecurity stuff.

Order the Darril Gibson Security+ book off of Amazon

While you wait for it take a Udemy Sec+ course as well. Some of them have good practice tests.
 
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JT-Money said:
Right now tons of companies are giving away tons of free training classes. I wouldn't spend money on any course material until all the free stuff has been exhausted. I've signed up for enough free training classes to last me until the end of the year and beyond.

You can get access to Microsoft Azure training free until 2025.


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Is this one the beginners course one? For those with not much experience?
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JT-Money said:
Right now tons of companies are giving away tons of free training classes. I wouldn't spend money on any course material until all the free stuff has been exhausted. I've signed up for enough free training classes to last me until the end of the year and beyond.

You can get access to Microsoft Azure training free until 2025.


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FREE - 5 year subscription to 240 + MS Azure courses, exams and articles
Free - 5 Years Subscription to 240+ Microsoft Azure Courses, Exams & Articles @ Pluralsight

Follow the link to sign-up using your existing or new account and the subscription will be activated.
Almost all Azure related materials are available with this subscription.

Pluralsight and Microsoft have partnered to help you become an expert in Azure. With skill assessments and over 200+ courses, 40+ Skill IQs and 8 Role IQs, you can focus your time on understanding your strengths and skill gaps and learn Azure as quickly as possible.

Choose your role -

  • Microsoft Azure Administrator - helps prepare for: AZ-103
  • Microsoft Azure Developer - helps prepare for: AZ-203
  • Microsoft Azure Solution Architect - helps prepare for: AZ-300 / AZ-301
  • Microsoft Azure AI Engineer - helps prepare for: AI-100
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps Engineer - helps prepare for: AZ-400
  • Microsoft Azure Data Engineer - helps prepare for: DP-200 / DP-201
  • Microsoft Azure Data Scientist - helps prepare for: DP-100
  • Microsoft Azure Security Engineer - helps prepare for: AZ-500
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@Secure Da Bag :ohhh:
 
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Regine Hunter said:
yes. trying to get to cyber from working for the government (non it admin) for 3 years.
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Dont be keep learning!! Learn cloud. I got rejected a ton due to lack of experience but I ended up landing a senior role because of cloud knowledge.

I will say though cyber security has tons of umbrella. So you have to find what truly interests you. You can be doing data privacy, risk management, auditing, firewalls, cloud security, endpoint security, ips/ids. etc. Lots of opportunities in the field.
 
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Rice'N Beckford said:
most likely yes. You might luck up, but if you dont have any IT exp. jobs will skip over you tbh. Youre gonna get low balled too with salary.

if you wanna do govt IT or govt cyber you should just try to get a help desk job with a contractor with openings for govt agencies. Thats the easiest way to get a security clearance too.

Like all of govt cyber jobs require a sec+ and a security clearance :russ:.

Get a job with a govt contractor. Leave for another job once you got your certs amd clearance, start applying to cyber positions
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I talked to the manager of it services at my job. He said once I pass my cert, he’ll pull some strings for shadowing. It’s a start. I just hope I continue to build and land that dream job that moves me outta here.

for whatever reason I got no notifications for this thread :dahell:
Mirin4rmfar said:
Dont be keep learning!! Learn cloud. I got rejected a ton due to lack of experience but I ended up landing a senior role because of cloud knowledge.

I will say though cyber security has tons of umbrella. So you have to find what truly interests you. You can be doing data privacy, risk management, auditing, firewalls, cloud security, endpoint security, ips/ids. etc. Lots of opportunities in the field.
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absolutely. I’ve gained a bit of interest in security operations center, and possibly looking into incident handling, but there’s a free AWS bootcamp that promises CCP readiness so imma take a crack at that cert once its done
 
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