My Future Career As A Cyber Security Specialist

My Future Career The future career that I choose is a Cyber security expert. The interest that I developed in this career was due to a lot of what I’ve saw in the news over the years and from what I’ve personally experienced over the years. A large majority of companies and government agencies hire these experts to help strengthen networks, safeguard information, or prevent cyber-attacks. That’s the part that really interested me. Cyber-attacks. With a large amount of hacker groups out there, there needs be just as many hackers that do good rather than bad. So this what I want to do. I want to be the person to help prevent these attacks, or even stop them. Cyber Security experts as basically people that watch data logs, set up security and …show more content…
It’s as simple as that. This job may sound kind of easy but actually doing some of the things that have to be done can be quite difficult since you have to have a good understanding of the security field. This isn’t a job that you can just hop in too, there are a lot of test and certifications that you should acquire before you take a job where you could potentially cost a company millions of dollars or be the reason sensitive information is acquired. There are many requirements and qualifications for this job, but they aren’t quite what you might think. First of all. You need to acquire a degree for cyber security. This degree is a 4 year program. After you’ve acquired that you may possibly be able to get an entry level job. This would be recommended in the since that you need to acquire a few security related certifications, certifications like the CompTIA Security + even up to the gold stand ICS2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional. There are a lot of different types of security …show more content…
I’m just now scratching the surface of this great world of technology, but I am taking steps in the right direction. I am currently in college for Network Systems administration, and after I graduate from this 2 year degree I plan to get an entry level job and then go back to school for another 4 years and obtain my degree in cyber security. Now I’ve set it in my head that I’m not going to find a security job right away so I plan to start taking certification tests as soon as I possibly can, and I plan to get as many that relate to my field that I possibly can. It’s going to take a long time, but I plan to stick with it and follow it to wherever it takes