Obtaining A Certification As An IT Security Professional
Submitted by: TigerEye
The information security market is expanding and in need of extra help. If you are considering a future working in this section of the computer world, you should consider getting a certification.
In the real world of computers, it is no different than the real world. It is redundant to say it, but computers do not make the world any safer or any more dangerous. They merely reflect the world as it is. Armed with this insight, you should consider getting a certified positionn as an IT security professional. It is tantamount to becoming a police officer, albeit a digital police officer. Security will become your domain.
There is more than one way to go about this. You can learn yourself by setting up a server and learning how to defend it from attacks that will inevitably come your way. While this may make you similar to a "street fighter" it is better to learn from those who have experience. Take a course in IT Computer Security and avoid lost time fighting the bad guys on your own.
You can find many good places to start. The GIAC or Global Information Assurance Certification is one such place. The IT Computer Security is also called infosec and involves levels of knowledge and therefore levels of protection. If you read lately about the sophisticated attacks levied against the servers at google, you know that no one is exempt from attack. Whether you have a small or a large expensive setup to take care of, it can become the object of an attack. Learn how to defend expensive equipment and you will be a valuable asset to many organizations in the world.
Taking a quick look at the levels you will be required to learn, there are three basic ones; general security, malware avoidance and the third is compliance. The first level to obtain is a basic level that will show your ability to capture and analyze traffic. You will also demonstrate incident handling, ITSEC domain, security technologies domain and soft skills domain.
Malware security is a category that requires a person with special analytical skills. These skills can be learned with experience, so classes to demonstrate the threats are important. Malware changes with the popular topics of the day, and your job will be to find out what those changes are before the malware has made a strike.
The last section is the compliance level.
This is the knowledge of auditing domains, managing data and standards, auditing web applications, perimeter devices, sniffers and analyzers, and more. For businesses, you will learn security policy, research, writing skills and presentation skills. The last section is the ability to present personal research to an audience succesfully.
Cisco offers a level in computer security that they consider to be an "entry level" position. If you consider their offerings, they offer study in such things such as countermeasures, threats, operation procedures and auditing and monitoring. They offer this for network security and not so much for computer security, although the two are closely related.
The basic steps will be the same for learning InfoSec. Although if you plan on working for a large company with extended needs, the stakes go higher, and lawsuits will of course ensue. For this reason you want to study hard and make the grade of being a "top gun" IT Computer Security person if you want to be in the upper brackets of your peers.
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