Cisco Cybersecurity Specialist certification OR Comptia Security+ for beginner?

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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chrisone

Cisco IMO, but I am biased.

soccarplayer29

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.

NetworkNewb

Security+

chrisone

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.

OctalDump

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.

MitM

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