Chapter 17
Pursuing a Cybersecurity Career
IN THIS CHAPTER
Discovering various cybersecurity-related positions
Looking at cybersecurity career paths
Understanding cybersecurity certifications
Finding out how to get started
With a global shortage of competent cybersecurity professionals, there has never been a better time to pursue a cybersecurity career — especially because the shortage seems to grow with the passage of time. In fact, since the publication of the first edition of this book, the demand for qualified cybersecurity professionals has skyrocketed, fueled in part by the combination of a dramatic upsurge in high-profile, quality-of-life-impacting ransomware attacks, and the sudden and dramatic increase in remote working caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but that is likely to continue well into the future.
To put it simply, there just aren’t enough qualified cybersecurity professionals to fill all of the cybersecurity rolls that need to be filled, and the number of jobs that need to be filled continues to grow faster than the number of people able to fill those jobs. As a ...
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