Transferable IT skills
Author: Stefan Waldvogel
You worked in IT? Great, find your Cybersecurity skills.
Did you work in IT, risk management, or in a similar position?
In this chapter, I show how you can extract CISSP CBK© domains. These domains are beneficial, and if you work in these domains, you have a job in Cybersecurity right now. Reread it... if you do some of these activities, you work in Cybersecurity, and your work experience counts a lot!
If you want CISSP certified, you need at least two domains. CISSP is an HR-relevant certification and, at least in the US, valuable.
The following picture shows my path, and we can use it to find these domains.
In this chapter, I show how you can extract CISSP CBK© domains. These domains are beneficial, and if you work in these domains, you have a job in Cybersecurity right now. Reread it... if you do some of these activities, you work in Cybersecurity, and your work experience counts a lot!
If you want CISSP certified, you need at least two domains. CISSP is an HR-relevant certification and, at least in the US, valuable.
The following picture shows my path, and we can use it to find these domains.
Write your path down and compare your tasks against the CISSP Certification Exam Outline (https://www.isc2.org//-/media/ISC2/Certifications/Exam-Outlines/CISSP-Exam-Outline-English-April-2021.ashx ). Hint: Used domains while getting a degree do not count towards the exam requirement but might matter if you worked as a Student Assistant in a related field.
As an Administrator / IT-Engineer, I did many security-related tasks, but my title didn’t say it. If you have work experience in a security domain, you already worked in Cybersecurity! You are working in a help desk role with a broader scope, and you might have one or two domains. Therefore, you have an immense advantage because your experience counts, and in a resume, mention it somewhere. If you worked in IT and want to switch your career into a full Cybersecurity role, you can take the CISSP exam. You need two or more of the eight domains, and you need full five years of work experience in them.
It looks like (ISC)2 removed one requirement, and it does not matter anymore when you worked these five years.
As an Administrator / IT-Engineer, I did many security-related tasks, but my title didn’t say it. If you have work experience in a security domain, you already worked in Cybersecurity! You are working in a help desk role with a broader scope, and you might have one or two domains. Therefore, you have an immense advantage because your experience counts, and in a resume, mention it somewhere. If you worked in IT and want to switch your career into a full Cybersecurity role, you can take the CISSP exam. You need two or more of the eight domains, and you need full five years of work experience in them.
It looks like (ISC)2 removed one requirement, and it does not matter anymore when you worked these five years.
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