Hello! My name is Mike and I am an infosec engineer with 10+ years experience. I’ve worked in GRC, Vulnerability Management, PenTesting & AppSec. I have 17 SANS certs (I have a serious problem) and I’m also an infosec community enthusiast and creator/mod for /c/cybersecurity. AMA!
I’ll go for something like a TA maybe. I have some job experience already (sde, not cybersec) so idk if it counts.
Can you give some examples so that I can avoid that
Mostly non-tech experience. This is subjective and will vary hiring team to hiring team but in this field I have always glossed over any non-tech things on a resume. There’s so much opportunity for people to learn and get involved with IT/security that there’s no excuse to not just focus on those competencies on the resume. Just my opinion.
Okay. So my experience as a software developer while not the main thing being judged will still be relevant?
Absolutely still relevant!
Thanks a lot! Also any certifications I should start doing rn?
Kinda depends what you want to get into. If you’ve let to land your first security job maybe something like Sec+ to help get your foot in the door. If you know what discipline you want to get into (appsec, endpoint-sec, etc…) this could help further filter down what cert/training might be best to shoot for. Do you know what you think you want to do?
I was thinking Network Security. But I’m not sure about it. Sec+ will help me decide that?
Depends what you mean by “Network Security”. A lot of companies have adopted cloud-first environments so traditional netsec is more so cloud infra. In this case there are cloud-specific certs from Azure, AWS, GCP you can take that would be great. If you’re considering traditional network security it may be different. (Though a lot is very much shared).
Okay. Thanks a lot! :)