Roundup: How to begin your career in cybersecurity

December 9, 2022 – Published on IT Brew

So, you think you might want one of the almost 770,000 open cybersecurity jobs, but you don’t quite know your way around the server room, or anybody in there for that matter.

Here’s a collection of advice from industry professionals about important first steps for cybersecurity hopefuls, like zeroing in on a specialty and reaching out to the experts.

Kristen Bell, director of application security engineering, GuidePoint Security: One of the beautiful things about our industry is that most people love to talk about what they do…Go to conferences. OWASP welcomes you, ISSA, ISACA, all of those. Get involved in the community, meeting people and creating networks and being able to ask questions…I started going to conferences and meeting people. I had “phone-a-friends” and a network to reach out to, and I think that’s tremendously helpful.

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