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

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Building Your Lab

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

–Anton Chekhov

Now you know what you want. You have identified the cybersecurity area you want to work in, identified your current gaps, and established a plan. As part of this plan, you should have added time to ramp up with the technology areas in which you need to improve.

However, you can read about these technologies all day long, but if you don’t do hands-on practice, your knowledge will be limited, which might affect you while interviewing. When you don’t have hands-on experience in a subject, it’s hard to feel confident that you can actually implement the things you just learned about in theory.

With the number of online resources we have nowadays, it’s ...