From the course: Transitioning to a Career in Cybersecurity (2019)

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IT careers that complement cybersecurity

IT careers that complement cybersecurity

From the course: Transitioning to a Career in Cybersecurity (2019)

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IT careers that complement cybersecurity

- [Instructor] If you're coming from an IT career, you might be closer to a cybersecurity job than you realized. That's because many IT jobs are complimentary to cybersecurity jobs. Most IT jobs will build the baseline skills you need to be successful in a cybersecurity career. But there are some IT jobs that are so close to security jobs that making the transition is a lot easier. Let's take a look at some of them. IT help desk to security analyst. Working on an IT help desk builds many important skills including troubleshooting, problem solving, and verbal communication. As a security analyst, you would use these skills every day to help solve security problems and implement security solutions. So the skills you develop on the help desk make it a smoother transition to a security analyst job. A job in IT network operations requires many technical skills like understanding network protocols, firewalls, and routing and switching. Having these skills is essential to testing the…

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