Advice regarding switching career in InfoSec domain
Hello Everyone,
I need your guidance with regards to switching career to Infosec domain. I have IT background with 8 years experience in IT Helpdesk management (Non technical). I want to switch and continue my career in infosec domain now. Would request you to suggest career path and the best certification to start with.
Thank you.
I need your guidance with regards to switching career to Infosec domain. I have IT background with 8 years experience in IT Helpdesk management (Non technical). I want to switch and continue my career in infosec domain now. Would request you to suggest career path and the best certification to start with.
Thank you.
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Technical: Sec+>CEH>OSCP (Also look at GIAC certs)
Non-tech: Sec+/SSCP>CISM>CISSP
It really depends on what you want to do. If you like networking you could also do:
CCENT>CCNA:R&S>CCNA:SEC>CCNP etc....
So as you see it really depends on what you like about security.
Greatest ROI certs I mentioned: CISSP, CCNA:SEC, CEH in that order
But it all really depends on what you like. If you have an idea of what you like about security we might be able to give you a better path to follow.
The GIAC roadmap is useful for describing the various specialities within Info Sec. There's technology centred paths like network defence, or penetration testing or secure programming. There's audit paths. There's forensics. There's incident handling. There's management. There's a whole legal compliance and governance angle as well. It is a broad field.
The Security+ is useful also to get an idea of the lay of the land and breadth. Some areas might be more appealing than others.
Quite a few universities offer Master (even Bachelor) level qualification in Information Security.