Skip to Content
Building a Career in Cybersecurity: The Strategy and Skills You Need to Succeed
book

Building a Career in Cybersecurity: The Strategy and Skills You Need to Succeed

by Yuri Diogenes
September 2023
Beginner
192 pages
4h 24m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional

Overview

The Insider's Guide to Launching and Accelerating Your Cybersecurity Career

Cybersecurity is one of the world's fastest growing, most exciting fields--but that doesn't mean it's easy to enter the industry and succeed. Now, there's a complete guide to creating a great cybersecurity career, whether you are migrating to cybersecurity from another field or are already a cybersecurity professional.

Building a Career in Cybersecurity doesn't teach detailed technical skills you can get from a thousand books and videos. Instead, Yuri Diogenes focuses on make-or-break knowledge you won't find elsewhere: personal strategy, planning, process, mindset, and the critical "soft skills" today's employers are desperate to find.

Diogenes is your perfect guide: he's been there and done it all. He is Principal PM Manager for a cybersecurity team at Microsoft, hiring the next generation of practitioners. He's also a professor for a bachelor's degree program in cybersecurity, where he prepares students to become cybersecurity professionals. Diogenes will show you exactly what leaders like him are looking for, and mentor you step-by-step through getting started and moving forward.

Dont learn "the hard way" by making costly career mistakes. Get this book, and build your plan to win!

  • Assess your "fit," skills, motivation, and readiness

  • Compare the industry's career paths, and decide what to aim for

  • Create a game plan: fill skill gaps, set timelines, create a portfolio, and target the right certs

  • Build a cloud-based lab to hone your modern technical skills

  • Develop a network that puts you in the right place at the right time

  • Prepare to ace your interview

  • Treat your employer as your customer, and overcome obstacles to success

  • Get work-life balance right, so you can stay passionate about what you're doing

  • Grow in your career, even if you're working remotely

  • Plan your next moves, and get more valuable as the industry evolves

Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

.

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Building a Cyber Risk Management Program

Building a Cyber Risk Management Program

Brian Allen, Brandon Bapst, Terry Allan Hicks

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780138214463