Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path

Index

• A
• Acting quickly, importance of, 153
• Active Directory, 57, 207
• Active testing, learning about, 100
• Ad hoc learning, 102
• Allow lists, 231
• Analyst resources, as learning option, 104
• Appearance, importance of in job searches, 90
• Application security, described, 57
• Artificial intelligence, 57
• Asset management, as example of function, 208

• B
• Barker, Jessica (author)
  • Confident Cyber Security: How to Get Started in Cyber Security and Future Proof Your Career, 17, 58, 287

• Being intentional, importance of, 119, 129
• Benchmarks, use of, 117
• Bias
  • checking your language for in job postings, 224
  • few as being immune to, 121

• Block lists, 231
• Blogging, value of, 78
• Blogs, as learning option, 105
• Blue teams, described, 32
• Board members, managing yours, 245–246
• Bohnet, Iris (author)
  • What Works: Gender Equality by Design, 288

• Books, as resources, 287–288
• Boot camps
  • as learning option, 104
  • as training option, 50

• BSides Conferences, 38, 288
• Buckingham, Marcus (author)
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths, 25, 138, 288

• Business goals
  • aligning reporting to, 200
  • being sure functions and structure of team supports your company's, 210

• Business priorities, knowing yours, 191–193
• Business risk picture, drawing of, 184–185

• C
• Carey, Marcus J., 5
• Carhart, Leslie, 58
• Certifications
  • consideration of to advance your security career, 135
  • list of, 47–48
  • organizations for, 289
  • truth about security certifications, 46–48

• Change agent, as security persona, 23
• Chief information ...