Being a SOC analyst is hard.
Being a tech writer is hard.
Being a pentester is hard.
Being a GRC auditor is hard.
Being an engineer is hard.
Being a trainer is hard.
Being in any role is hard.
Add yours 👇🏽.
Choose your hard.
Trying to get a job in cybersecurity but frustrated by hiring requirements, certifications and even just landing an interview? Do this instead…
Get a job in help desk. The skills you will be able to learn and the experienced gained not just from the technical side of things but business too, is invaluable for a career in cybersecurity.
I remember when I was in help desk, got a call once to fix an executives printer. I went up to his office and was working on it and I was able to hear his conversation with another exec. Nothing secret or anything I shouldn’t have heard or anything. But it gave me perspective on what those execs care about and how they thought.
Cybersecurity requires that you have an open mind and that you’re able to take in information, contextualize it, and make decisions on it.
Help desk gives you the environment to learn and grow as a professional. You can then leverage that experience to land your next job, then your next builds upon that and so on.
There’s no better way to get started in cybersecurity than first spending a few years in help desk. You (probably) won’t regret it.
@glementsanthosh@gabbytech01 SIEM: Get hands-on with Splunk (BTL1 level) or Microsoft Sentinel. Understand ingestion pipelines. DLP: Focus on data classification logic and endpoint vs. network policies