Want to start a career in cyber security? Follow this roadmap 

Hacker? NO.

YES. to - Cyber Security Engineer, Cyber Security Analyst, Penetration Tester, Information Security Engineer, Information Security Analyst, etc. (Fun Fact - all the same with different titles for Job)



Assuming You are very new - 

Need to Understand What IT is before moving into Cyber Security as Cyber is a part of Computer Science and Information Technology below course will give you Good Understanding of what IT is and how you can understand what to Look for and what each of Technology is really,


CompTIA IT Fundamentals - ITProv.TV 

https://www.itpro.tv/courses/comptia/comptiafundamentals-exam-fc0u61/


Also Recommended to below courses 

Get Connected

IT Essentials

https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses


CompTIA A+ -- will Help you in Understanding what a Computer is and what you can do with it, what it consists of, How it works, How you can Troubleshoot any Problems,


CompTIA A+ Core 1 - 

https://www.professormesser.com/free-a-plus-training/a-plus-videos/220-1001-training-course/


CompTIA A+ Core 2 -

https://www.professormesser.com/free-a-plus-training/a-plus-videos/220-1002-training-course/


CompTIA N+ - will Help you in Understanding what network is about and all concepts that Help you enough to understand how Data Communication works - 

https://www.professormesser.com/network-plus/n10-007/n10-007-training-course/


You will be even Good when you try to explore more from Netacad Learning from Cisco - Under network Section 

https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses


Networking Essentials

CCNA: Introduction to Networks

CCNA: Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials

CCNA: Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation


CompTIA Security+ - Cyber Security Awareness is MUST whether you move to pentest or perform Incident Response - As long you do not understand what and How your Social Engineering is done will be very hard to grow. Fundamentals are everything from IT Sec to Access Control and Cryptography 

https://www.professormesser.com/security-plus/sy0-601/sy0-601-video/sy0-601-comptia-security-plus-course/


You will be Even better if you have explored little from Cisco learning as well.

Introduction to Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Essentials


Above are Core Survival Skills which is must need when you are in IT 

moving to Phase 2 - Linux - is a Beautiful OS and wonderful to learn.


Highly recommend completing - below courses - 

https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses


NDG Linux Unhatched

NDG Linux Essentials

NDG Linux I

NDG Linux II


https://linuxjourney.com/


To Implement Practically all learned knowledge - 

https://overthewire.org/wargames/

Bandit is a MUST



Congratulations if you have Completed the above Concepts - you are a Good IT GUY. Crossed a Baby Step !!


Moving to Phase 3 - Administration - 

Linux Adminstration - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsh64rjnRas


Windows Administration - 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrtYDS5WKR0&list=PLYogJ_kxL1wTesq-vNxEc8tjDOHvszeWf


Servers and Clouds Concepts are Optional to understand how your Infra works - Better to have Not a mandate -


CompTIA Server+ - Fast Track 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJV-GBZ6PeM&list=PLb7fvISdTE_FoyuHzXFd50TtRmAUTdoju


CompTIA Cloud+ - Fast Track 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRfYrAQHbTg&list=PLJEwQ1of-My77x9F8vganZzmjyONzSi0i


You are Free to take - Azure - AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500 Series too. 


Great, You have now Completed all the prerequisites for Cyber Security - let's go some deeper now. 


Network Security - https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses


Certified Network Security Specialist - from ICSI - which was made Free during Covid make use of this - 

https://www.icsi.co.uk/courses/take/icsi-cnss-certified-network-security-specialist-covid-19/texts/11570280-guided-exercise-analysing-telnet-network-traffic


Now we are Good to Divide into Different Track as per the Interest of a Specific user - 


RED and BLUE 


Blue Side - 


Every Starter in Blue Teaming will kick start the career from SOC L1 - Highly recommend completing the below course 

CyberOps Associate

https://www.netacad.com/courses/all-courses


You are Good for SOC L1 Job - once you get a Job - Sub for Payed Service from SBT. 


RED Side - 

Need to create an Account from elearnSecurity - 

INE - Penetration Testing Student

https://my.ine.com/CyberSecurity/learning-paths/a223968e-3a74-45ed-884d-2d16760b8bbd/penetration-testing-student


Source:- https://t.me/informationsecuritylife


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