Not Sure How to Start Your Cybersecurity Career!
In my 14 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience I can only say that this is the best time to be in Cybersecurity, which is still a rapidly growing field with endless opportunities for career advancement and personal growth.
I have learnt from my Mentees that the path to a successful career now requires a continuous Mentor support. The reason is the explosion of new learning materials which can cause anxiety and confusion for vast majority. The traditional university programs do provide a structure but they lack significantly when it comes to updating the curriculum and providing personalised coaching. I can not stress enough for leaders of today to set aside some time to coach the leaders of tomorrow so if you are an expert in your area but do not have the time to set aside for such activity, I can assure you now is the best time to give back.
As for individuals who want to join Cybersecurity to get started on your journey to becoming an Cybersecurity Engineer, I suggest the following 12-week plan: (The material is all free and built with hands on labs in Google Cloud link : https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths/15 ). Remember that you get a badge to show/share your achievement from each week activity.
Week 1: The first course for you would be to get to know the new world of Cloud created by Google. The course is titled “A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs” and it will give you a fairly good idea of what Cloud is all about. Why cloud well the future is all about Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud so its better to start learning with a technology which is future proof and sets you off to a good start when searching for your next role within Cybersecurity.
Week 2: Begin learning the basics with this path on google “Preparing for Your Professional Cloud Security Engineer Journey” there are 26 videos.
Week 3: Learn Fundamentals about Cloud Infrastructure. There are 46 videos with a few labs and Quizzes.
Week 4: Develop your understanding of network architecture and protocols. Defining and Implementing Networks with Google Cloud short course with 51 videos with labs and quizzes.
Week 5: In the ever changing enterprise world you can learn further about Hybrid Connectivity and Network Management. There are 44 videos with labs and Quizzes.
Week 6: Managing Security in cloud (Week 1/2)
Week 7: Managing Security in cloud (Week 2/2)
The two weeks dedicated to Security will cover
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Week 8: Security Best Practices in Cloud.
Week 9: Learn about Mitigating Security Vulnerabilities in the cloud.
Week 10: Practice Quest - How to Build and Secure Networks in Google Cloud.
These quests should take 7.5 hours but as they are all hands on the practice here will make you feel what the engineers do everyday and get a better grasp of the technology stack.
Week 11: Practice Quest- Cloud security Access & Identity technologies.
These labs quests should take around 8 hours to complete but you have one full week to practice, read and understand this fully.
Week 12: Seek out cybersecurity certification within Google Cloud to showcase your achievements and set yourself up to continuous learning.
By following this plan, you will be well on your way to becoming a cybersecurity expert and opening up a world of opportunities.
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