This is a presentation I have delivered to under graduate students who are interested in cyber security and want to know the strategy to get into cyber security by preparing themselves while studying their under graduation.

1. Cybersecurity Career
Options & Getting Started
Balaji Rajasekaran
Cyber Security Solutions Architect

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About me
 12+ years of experience in IT.
 Worked in Zoho, Netsurion, Trustwave and BT
 Experience in following areas of Cybersecurity
 Security Operations
 Threat hunting
 Product/Solution Designing & Implementing
 Consultant/Presales & Support
 Vulnerability Assessment
 Risk Analysis

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What’s ahead?
 Why cybersecurity?
 What’s missing?
 CyberSec Roles
 Breaking down the roles
 Getting started
 Preparing yourself
 Further reading

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Why Cybersecurity?
Source: Cybersecurityventures.com

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Why Cybersecurity? (contd.)
Source: Cybersecurityventures.com

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What’s missing?
 Skills gap - Less skilled people for more jobs
 Retaining people is hard
 Less CyberSec specific curriculum
 Less awareness

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CyberSec Roles
Security
Analyst
Penetration
Tester
Security
Architect
Forensics
Analyst
Security
Auditor
CISO

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CyberSec Roles – Security Analyst
 Incident analysis
 Threat hunting
 Vulnerability Analysis
 Compliance reporting
 Incident response

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CyberSec Roles – Penetration Tester
 White hat hacking
 Finding gaps
 Break into network
 Analyze security measures and report
 Can work independently - Bug Bounty $$$$

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CyberSec Roles – Penetration Tester
Social Engineering

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CyberSec Roles – Security Architect
 Designing security solutions and framework
 Identify new security requirements
 Tune existing security controls
 Closing the gaps

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CyberSec Roles – Forensics Analyst
 Recover and examine evidence
 Prepare reports based on evidence
 Work with law enforcement
 Maintain chain of custody

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CyberSec Roles – Security Auditor
 Ensuring organization are adhering rules.
 Assess the security risks and report it.
 Recommends standards and practices.
 Work with top management for remediation measures.

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CyberSec Roles – CISO
 Top management role in cyber security.
 Heads all department in security and decision maker.
 Identifies security objectives and metrics.
 Managing Incident Response plan.

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Getting started
 Strong Basics
 Networking, OS, Cryptography
 Decide between security analyst/ penetration tester.
Security
Analyst
Penetration
Tester
• Big data analysis
• SIEM - Splunk, Qradar, ArcSight
• Scripting (Python, JavaScript, SQL)
• Know the tools

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Getting started (contd.)
 Free resources
 TryHackMe
 Hackthebox
 Cyberdefenders
 Cybrary
 US Department of Homeland Security
 Open Security Training
 Heimdal Security
 Sans Cyber Aces Online
 Paid resources
 Udemy
 Future Learn
 Coursera
 Pluralsight

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Preparing yourself
 Make a plan.
 Strong Basics.
 Set up a lab and start experimenting.
 Effective use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog.
 Start planning a cyber sec final year project.
 Stay updated.

18. One more thing

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One more thing
Password hygiene
 Stop using one password for multiple accounts.
 Start using a password manager. (Bitwarden, Keepass)
 Enable 2FA wherever available.
 Subscribe to data breach notifications from https://haveibeenpwned.com

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Further reading
 https://securityintelligence.com
 https://thehackernews.com
 https://security.stackexchange.com
 https://osintframework.com
 https://github.com/onlurking/awesome-infosec
 https://github.com/showcases/security

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Questions?