Re: Path to IT Security

[Meadow <Meadow () hammerofgod com>]

Another point of entry into IT (then to security) is through help desk positions. You start with mundane tier 1 support 
like routing tickets and password resets, but if you continue learning and demonstrate a good work ethic in the right 
company, you can be promoted. 
Study in your own time

On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:34 AM, "Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:10:48 GMT, Emmanuel Apreko said:
> > After researching i found out that the most prestigious security certification
> > is the CISSP and it seems like a very long journey to it since i have no
> > experience in it at all but need to get my foot in.
>
> Since the CISSP requires 4 or 5 years of practical experience, those positions
> will (or at least should be) written for experienced people.  What you will
> probably have to do is look for positions tagged "entry level".  Find one of
> those positions, find a mentor, and start learning as much as you can on the
> job.  I know a number of people who took a job as an entry-level sysadmin, and
> made sure they were visible when positions opened up in the security office.
> I've known web developers who appointed themselves the security auditor for web
> development projects (checking for SQL injection, XSS, and all the other
> well-known issues that are important to check for but nobody else will
> volunteer to audit for), and then leveraged that into a full-blown security
> role. You may want to look at taking a sysadmin job at a smaller company, or
> maybe a small college, that doesn't even *have* a security office yet - and
> *create* it.  Plenty of options out there, but most of them requires some
> creative thinking to find.
>
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