Cisco Cybersecurity Specialist certification OR Comptia Security+ for beginner?

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I am looking to change my profession. As I do not have any related job experience, I would need some entry level certification to convince my employer.


So far, I have been preparing for Security+. But recently I came across Cisco Cybersecurity specialist cert, and it looked interesting. I know it is vendor specific, but given the fact that Cisoc is huge, this certification looks good too.


Please suggest if I should continue preparing for Security+ and get that, or should I get the Cisco cert instead?
Or is there any other better recognized entry level security certification?


Thanks
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  • chrisonechrisone Member Posts: 2,278 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Cisco IMO, but I am biased.
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  • soccarplayer29soccarplayer29 Member Posts: 230 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Continue with the Sec+

    I had never heard of the Cisco Cybersecurity Specialist and just looked it up and the recommended prereq. is CCNA Security level knowledge. I'm assuming you haven't had a lot of exposure to networking and think this would be difficult.

    Sec+ is entry-level and very well known and is a great start.
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  • NetworkNewbNetworkNewb Member Posts: 3,298 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Security+
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  • chrisonechrisone Member Posts: 2,278 ■■■■■■■■■□
    soccarplayer29 wrote: »
    I had never heard of the Cisco Cybersecurity Specialist and just looked it up and the recommended prereq. is CCNA Security level knowledge. I'm assuming you haven't had a lot of exposure to networking and think this would be difficult.

    I agree, this is true.
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  • OctalDumpOctalDump Member Posts: 1,722
    Security+ is broader and gives good baseline security knowledge across IT. Cisco's streams are much more tightly focussed on network security and their products.

    FWIW, I did Security+ before CCNA Security and found that it was very beneficial to have that background knowledge first.
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  • MitMMitM Member Posts: 622 ■■■■□□□□□□
    If you already started Security+, I'd probably continue that route.

    Not many people know about the Cisco Cyber security specialist cert. Also, as the name implies, that's supposed to be a specialist certification, not really entry level.

    I'd maybe look into getting your Cisco CCENT and then CCNA Security. Or possibly have a look at Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops cert (available Nov/Dec)

    CCNA Cyber Ops - Cisco
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