This document provides guidance on navigating a career in cybersecurity. It introduces Segun Olaniyan, a cybersecurity analyst and educator, and outlines his experience working in roles such as cybersecurity analyst, content strategist, and R&D analyst. It then recommends understanding basic networking and programming concepts. The document suggests focusing on skills like SIEM, cloud security, and threat intelligence. It advises getting mentorship, work experience through labs and internships, and following a path in defending, detecting, responding or investigating. The conclusion is to get the skills needed to thrive in cybersecurity careers.

1. CYBERSECURITY
N A V I G A T I N G
Segun Ebenezer Olaniyan, Cybersecurity
Analyst/Educator

2. Meet Me
Segun is a passionate cybersecurity analyst with a
burning passion for cyber defence, cloud security,
and cybersecurity mindfulness.
He's an amazing Cybersecurity Speaker and a
prolific writer with over 20 articles written about
cybersecurity and technologies.
He has been featured on several Cybersecurity
Awareness talks and Conferences.
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3. My Navigation Experience 3
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DIPLOMA
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UNDERGRAD
52 CERTS &
6 INDUSTRY
CERTS
CYBERSECURITY
ANALYST &
EDUCATOR - USA
CYBERSECURITY
CONTENT
STRATEGIST -
UK
CYBRSECURITY
R&D ANALYST
CYBER
DEFENSE
ANALYST

4. Understand the Basics 4
Networking Operating System
Applications Programming
OSI Layer
TCP/UDP
HTTP
Switching &
Routing
FTP | SSH
Firewall
Apache
DBApp
CLI
Process Mgt.
File Mgt.
SystemAdmin.
Memory Mgt.
Scripting
Python
HTML
SQL

5. Focus on Skills 5
SIEM | NG-SIEM |SOAR
EDR
CLOUD |AWS,AZURE,GCP
CASB
EMAILSECURITY
GATEWAY
MANAGEMENT
THREAT REPORTS |
INTEL
INSIDERTHREAT
MITREATT&CK
ATTRIBUTION IN
CYBERSECURITY
IAM | PAM
DAM
NETWORK | ENDPOINTS
MANAGEMENT
AD
LINUX FOUNDATION
NIST | ISO | PCI-DSS |CCA2015 | HIPAA | NDPR|
C++ | PYTHON | PERL | RUBY |C#
RESPONSE
FIREWALL | pfSense |XG |
CYBER KILLCHAIN
NAVIGATING
CYBERSECURITY
BAS
INCIDENT

6. Get a Mentor 6

7. Get Work Experience 7
SET UP YOUR
OWN LAB!
HANDS-ON PRACTICE
VIRTUAL INTERNSHIPS

8. Follow a Path 8
You can Defend,
Detect, Respond
and Investigate.
You can Tes t ,
Audit and
PenTesting
You can Build - Security
Engineer, Architect
and Patch Management
You can develop
and maintain
standards - GRC
You can
Manage Team
and Project

9. Get What It Takes to Thrive 9
https://niccs.cisa.gov/workforce-development/cyber-security-workforce-framework

10. Thank You
Do you have any questions?
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