Cybersecurity Jobs & Career Paths: Find Cybersecurity Jobs, #2

By bruce brown

I am in cybersecurity but I am not a hacker! This field has many branches and not all of them are deeply technical or hands on. Some of these jobs are high-paying with salaries up to 6 figures.

According to the White House, there are 700,000 cybersecurity positions open today. There is a good chance that you fit into some of these roles.
Using the techniques in this series, you can be a part of one of the fastest, highest paid career paths in IT.

In this book we talk about:

A federal cybersecurity workforce framework

Explore the cybersecurity categories

Expand on cybersecurity special areas

Connect work roles to current cybersecurity market

• Language: English
• Publisher: bruce brown
• Release date: Jan 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215316207

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Cybersecurity Jobs & Career Paths

Book 2

Find Cybersecurity Jobs

By

Bruce Brown, CISSP, ISC2 CAP

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Table of Contents

Hacking = Cybersecurity?

Overview of Cybersecurity Field

Information Security Color Wheel

Cybersecurity Workforce Categories

Cybersecurity Workforce Categories

The Analyze Category

All-Source Analysis

Exploit Analysis

Language Analyst

Targets

Being a Professional in the Analyst Category

Collect and Operate Cybersecurity Category

Collection Operations

Cyber Operational Planning

Being a Professional in the Collection and Operations Category

Investigate Cybersecurity Category

Cyber Investigation

Digital Forensics

Being a Professional in the Investigate Category

Unspeakable Crimes

Operate and Maintain Cybersecurity Category

Customer Service and Technical Support

Being in Customer Service

Data Administration

Being a DBA and Data Analyst

Knowledge Management

Network Services

Systems Administrator

Oversee and Govern Cybersecurity Category

Communications Security (COMSEC)

Information System Security Manager (ISSM)

Being an Information System Security Professional Jobs

Executive Cyber Leadership

Chief Information Security Officers

Legal Advice and Advocacy

Program/Project Management and Acquisition

Protect & Detect Cybersecurity Category

Cyber Defense Analysis

Being a Cyber Defense Analyst

Tips on Cyber Defense Analysis Positions

Securely Provision Cybersecurity Category

Risk Management

Software Development

System Architecture

System Development

Technology and Testing

Cybersecurity Scientists & Mathematicians

Cybersecurity Scientist

Cryptographers / Mathematicians

Many people are familiar with mathematicians in academia, but mathematicians also work in many other fields, including:

Appendix A: DoD Approved Certifications

Hacking = Cybersecurity?

There is a lot of interest in cybersecurity, but people think that it’s all about hacking. In this book I want to show you that there are many categories of this career path that have nothing to do with hacking or coding.

TV and movies glamorize this one aspect of cybersecurity and it’s so ingrained in people’s minds that they think that hacking is cybersecurity.

I have been doing cybersecurity and IT since the year 2000 and I want to inform you that there is a lot more to cybersecurity than cracking passwords, infiltrating a school’s system to change the grades or breaking into the databases of banks and police departments.

Cybersecurity includes creating encryption modules, meeting laws and regulations of countries, and industries. It also involves intelligence and analysis of network traffic, analysis of software code and securing digital evidence for a criminal case. Because computers have to be in an environment that is controlled, cybersecurity also includes some physical and personnel security. You have to control who has physical security to the systems.

Cybersecurity is important for every aspect of information technology from the initial design of a computer system to a system’s end of life.  Computer hacking is a small percentage of what cybersecurity is. In fact, what is hacking? The Oxford dictionary defines it as the act of gaining unauthorized access to data in a system or computer. This is a very limited definition of the term. What cybersecurity professionals consider hacking is a pretty broad field that includes, penetration testing, red teams, black hats, gray hats, white hats, phreakers, social engineering and others.

Cybersecurity is a huge field that requires more than just clever hackers who can crack a database. We need skilled communicators, leaders, managers, and analysts from all walks of life. Not all cybersecurity professionals are even technical.

With this book, my hope is for