Getting into technology sector

Posted by chrodobert on Thursday October 19, 2017 @11:49PM
from the self-post dept.

Is it possible to get into the technology sector without formal training now-a-days. I am 30 years old. I have a bachelor's degree in economics. I would be interested in getting into IT security. What self directed / certificate programs are good for this? I really don't want to go back to school and get another degree at this stage.

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Re:Getting into technology sector by kazishariar on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:22AM (#15513845)

I'm an Accounting/Economics major myself. And I've been in the field for years, I'd say welcome. We've gotta fill those 1.5 million jobs come 2020 somehow right?

DevSecOps - is a fairly new field in automation of security, i could google that for ya

I'd suggest get started with some AWS track there's a specialty security track (rmr, you have to get the previous ones first) - https://acloud.guru/learn/aws-certified-security-specialty

Also Cisco has their cybersecurity curriculum up as well - https://mkto.cisco.com/Security-Scholarship.html

Other than that, get a job at an early stage start-up angel.co - build up a real-world experience, work for free, maybe run through a few examples of how to get an environment fully under compliance. just don't bullshit.

stay hungry. and you'll be fine. welcome, and welcome again.

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Re:Getting into technology sector by chrodobert on Friday October 20, 2017 @02:38AM (#15513912)

Thanks man.

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