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So when it comes to salary potential, when you start on cybersecurity, you can typically expect the

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higher starting salary than most other, you know, I.T. professionals.

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Most likely you're going to be able to make 60 to 70 thousand dollars plus on your first job.

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Now, I will say that this may not be for everyone and you can change everything on where you live.

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But for example, I live in the Northern Virginia area, and this is a very, very common starting salary

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for I.T. jobs, especially cyber security.

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That's like almost the minimum wage.

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What are you going to start out?

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And, you know, as you gain more experience and certifications, you're going to be able to move towards

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making six figures within the first five to 10 years of your career.

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I can almost guarantee you that if you make the right moves, you make sure that you keep on learning

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and you always try to, you know, perform your best.

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You're going to be able to move into new positions, move up the ladder.

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You're going to start making big bucks.

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Cybersecurity is where as Evan.

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Just as a quick road map for you guys, the first thing that you're going to need to do is get some

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type of proof that you know your stuff.

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You probably won't get hired if you don't, you know, either have some type of experience or if you

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don't have, like a proof.

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In our case, this can be like, you know, an associates degree, which is just a two year degree that

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you might get from a community college, a bachelor's degree or even just a certification.

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Now, Ilene, personally, honestly, towards certification, because that is literally everything that

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can get you into a government job, that can get you into most of these companies that work with the

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government because they take their requirements very seriously.

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There's something called the DOD 85 70, and that's a list of accepted certifications at different levels

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and a lot of jobs, you know, focus primarily on those.

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And, you know, this will decide if you get a job or not.

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Even sometimes you might have like a ton of experience, but you don't have, like, the right cert.

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They might not give you the job.

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And certifications nowadays hold a lot of weight.

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I still want people to get their bachelor's degrees, you know, and it's in cybersecurity and maybe

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even move on to your masters.

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But I would like people, you know, if you're switching, you know, making a career transition or

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something or you're just trying to get into it, go for certification and work on a bachelor's degree

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over time, maybe you can get somebody you know to actually pay for your bachelor's degree.

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That's something to keep in mind.

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So when it comes to the certification, I recommend that anyone interested in cybersecurity starts with

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these security plus certification.

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This is pretty much like, you know, the status quo in the industry and security.

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Plus it will get you a job.

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Quick story.

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So I might add, one of my previous jobs, I was I.T. security analyst and a bunch of my co-workers

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that started after I did.

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They literally came in like one guy that worked on my shift.

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I worked the night shift for like three years.

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He worked on my shift and he told us that, you know, he was doing door to door sales and then his

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friend worked in the SOC that I worked in and said, hey, you know, we're hiring.

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He said, hey, what do I got to do to get this job?

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I thought, oh, you know, good job security plus and you should be good.

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So he literally went, I got a scary place a couple weeks.

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He came in and started making really good money.

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Another guy, he worked in a hotel as the person that can reach you at the front desk in the hotel.

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So and he did the same thing.

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You got security.

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Plus he came in past the interview and he was good to go.

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That's not going to be how it is everywhere.

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But for the most part, I recommend that you start with that because he does hold a lot of weight.

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I can't express this enough.

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And in terms of hacking, I become an ethical hacker, penetrations, tester, whatever you want to

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call it, sort of your S.H. or a certified ethical hacker certification is going to be very important.

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This is a certification from counsel I don't want to say is the status quo, but it will get you an

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interview most of the time if you get your S.H. It is highly regarded for the most part.

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And it's a really good introduction.

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You know, in a lot of the stuff that we go over here, you're going to see that we've gone over this

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clash.

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You're going to see, you know, in the material there and you'll probably be able to get through that,

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you know, that certification pretty quickly and pretty easily as well, because we know we're following

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like a similar methodology, using a lot of the tools that we might bring up there as well and techniques.

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So C.H. is definitely something you should if you try to, you know, jump start your career in cybersecurity

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and more specifically, ethical hacking.

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You know, these two states alone, they can qualify.

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Like I said, offer me jobs is going to be message you on LinkedIn all the time.

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People are going to be emailing you, calling you, leaving voicemails.

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Just I mean, once you start to get these search, people are looking for people specifically with these

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certifications to interview for positions.

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And just to reiterate, you do not need a degree to get into cybersecurity.

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Say with me, you do not need a degree to get into cybersecurity or I.T. the way that the landscape

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Like I said, it's heavily based on certifications.

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I do recommend that you get your bachelor's degree and even maybe go higher than that one day like in

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your career, just because it'll make them, you know, pretty much have to pay more and also qualify

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for, you know, some jobs.

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I might need a actual bachelor's degree or some type of degree, but you do not need a degree in this

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So don't ever let someone tell you that you need to go get your bachelor's degree because you really

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don't, although I do recommend that you do after you get your career started by getting certifications.

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So your first objective is going to be to find, you know, some type of entry level security position.

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Now, this can be, you know, a position and maybe like a Tier one cybersecurity analyst or a junior

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security engineer, junior penetration test, or be open to taking on an internship just so that you

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can gain experience.

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You know, one of those roles, even some other security roles if possible.

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The anything that you can get your phone into is going to, you know, for all your career.

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And, you know, if you can't find one of these positions, you know, just try to get your foot in

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the door with something like a sysadmin position or a systems engineer position, because most likely

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you're going to have some security tasks wrapped into your responsibilities and, you know, your daily

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duties and such.

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So you're going to be able to spin that and say, hey, you know, I have some cybersecurity experience.

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And then you took this class and, you know, you're going to be to talk about hacking and we'll talk

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about cybersecurity and stuff.

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So you're going to be good to go.

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So just try to do one of these things.

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And there's a lot of other different names that kind of these are kind of like, what are you going

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to see the most?

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But there's a lot of different names of different positions, cybersecurity.

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So go ahead and look.

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Just go on like on indeed.

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I really recommend, you know, you're going to need and you start to search of something, see what

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the requirements are for like entry level cybersecurity positions.

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I would just go on and and type in like entry level cybersecurity and whatever else you want to work

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in and the location box and just look at what's there, looking at look at the requirements that look

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that stuff up.

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You might even know some researchers.

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So do that start to brainstorm and then you'll figure out a way which targeting an issue first.

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Let's say that, you know, you go ahead, you take my advice, you get a job great.

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So now you need to build your experience up and go after a higher level, you know, security certifications.

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And this can be something like the top tier cybersecurity as far as I see why I say.

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Plus, this is like a mid-level cybersecurity certification as that's something that you would take

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after security plus and it's a little bit more technical in nature.

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And then there's the top tier Kaspi or the Advanced Security Practitioner Certification.

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And this is like a top tier CISSP which don't want to go on to next.

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The CISSP is like the highest regarded information, you know, cybersecurity certification.

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If you get that certification, you get almost guaranteed, you know, to get jobs like very, very

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high paying jobs in like high level jobs.

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So I really recommend that one as well.

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I think with the CISSP is that you get a certain amount of experience to actually get the certification

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after you pass the test and you'll just be an associate.

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And so then but to be honest, you know, I told my son I told you this, but if you're an associate

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CISSP, it kind of holds the same weight.

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OK, so and like I said, the CACP is like his version of that one.

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It's it's like a mini but kesby, from what I've heard and from what I've seen from studying for myself

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is that it's a little bit more technical in nature than the CISSP in a CISSP is more like management.

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You know what we've managed to do in this situation, you know, but also wrapped in with a high level

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of technical, you know, security things that you're going to learn throughout your career and throughout

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your studies.

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So for hacking specifically, there's a couple certification that you can look into as well.

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So one is the office is security sort of a professional?

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This is like gaining your hacker badge.

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So it is certification.

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It says that you know how to manually, you know, go in and actually conduct a penetration test or

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hack into various different systems.

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I follow this the methodologies from that course very heavily.

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And it's something that I'm studying for myself.

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And a lot of the things that you learn here, you would see there as well, like some similar things,

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because it's very, very useful and it's very educational.

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You're trying to get into hacking.

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This will actually make you feel like, you know, a, I'm actually a hacker.

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And if you go on and start to look at that material, you're going to see some you're going to see some

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similarities between, you know, you're going to start seeing like maybe some tools or methods and

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such that I taught you here.

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So this can actually treat as like a like a pre course to that.

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So I definitely recommend OSTP.

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Go and check that out and see, you know, see what you think about it.

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And then there is the council's license penetration tester is right there, I always say is a little

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bit lower than the OCP and technical nature of OCP.

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Connolly really gets down into like the technical like, you know, this site, this is how you do that.

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And LPT is closer to the real world when it comes to penetrate distressingly different things that you

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do is that you would say stuff like that, more emulates like an actual real world type of environment.

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What you would see if you had a career, you know, in ethical.