Overcoming Cyber Experience Gap in Work History
roninkai
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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how to overcome some gaps in experience. I have a pretty awesome resume, that I recently re-wrote. Since Ive been submitting, the phone has been ringing off the hook. But since ceasing direct cyber / IT work in 2007 and starting my own web marketing business, I know have a big gap. I'm getting calls for incident response, vuln testing, etc....all things i've done, just its been years since Ive done them. So im technically savvy, just a little out dated.
To help with this, Ive recently obtained 5 certs this year. But even then, alot of this is just book reading and memorization. I feel like Im still missing so much. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting recent experience in cyber w/o already having a current job? I'm considering an Infosec bootcamp, but those are like $3500. I can already enroll at WGU for a semester for that price and start working on my Master's in Cyber.
I'm hoping there is some practice lab, or other inexpensive resource to get recent experience that I can demonstrate in interviews. I feel kinda foolish always referencing work I did 10 years ago. I have around 20 years total experience, but that may not count for as much if its in a field that changes as fast as IT/cyber does.
I'm trying to figure out how to overcome some gaps in experience. I have a pretty awesome resume, that I recently re-wrote. Since Ive been submitting, the phone has been ringing off the hook. But since ceasing direct cyber / IT work in 2007 and starting my own web marketing business, I know have a big gap. I'm getting calls for incident response, vuln testing, etc....all things i've done, just its been years since Ive done them. So im technically savvy, just a little out dated.
To help with this, Ive recently obtained 5 certs this year. But even then, alot of this is just book reading and memorization. I feel like Im still missing so much. Does anyone have any suggestions on getting recent experience in cyber w/o already having a current job? I'm considering an Infosec bootcamp, but those are like $3500. I can already enroll at WGU for a semester for that price and start working on my Master's in Cyber.
I'm hoping there is some practice lab, or other inexpensive resource to get recent experience that I can demonstrate in interviews. I feel kinda foolish always referencing work I did 10 years ago. I have around 20 years total experience, but that may not count for as much if its in a field that changes as fast as IT/cyber does.
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ICP-FDO ▪ CISSP ▪ ECES ▪ CHFI ▪ CNDA ▪ CEH ▪ MCSA/MCITP ▪ MCTS ▪ S+
2020 Level Up Goals: (1) DevSecOps Learning Path (2) OSCP