Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path

CHAPTER 8How Do I Keep Up?

Summary

• Know yourself: Plan for what you want to learn and follow it. Start with your immediate job and work outward from there.
• Network: Ask your network for recommendations about learning resources. Find social media, curated security news, and online learning sources.
• Stay curious: Go deep on a few chosen topics. Read, watch, and listen to a wide variety of resources.
• Communicate well and often: Share what you've learned with colleagues and your network.

Even before you get a job in security, it becomes glaringly obvious that a lot of change is happening, and there are lots of things to learn.

There is change in technology. There are new technology products emerging. There are new ways of using old technology. There are new security tools to address the new technology. This change is happening exponentially. New technology is being introduced and adopted faster each year. Staying ahead of what the technology is and what it means for security practitioners is challenging. Currently, we are looking at artificial intelligence and 5G, just to name a couple of things, and we are trying to work out what threats they create for an organization, how each security function will need to adjust to deal with those threats, and whether those threats are big enough to bump another security goal off the list of priorities.

Then there are changes in the way people use technology. Changes in where, how, and when people work mean the security profile ...