How to Earn the Best Cybersecurity Salary in a Booming Market
While there are a lot of job opportunities created in the current IT industries, the segment of cybersecurity is the one that has sought the attention of many aspirants in recent years. As the majority of the world’s economy diverted towards Internet-based computing and connectivity, organizations have grown consistently. Resulting in increased vulnerabilities towards hacking and cyber-attacks. And just as a business, institutions, hospitalities, etc. hire security staff for their premises even when there is the local police force, so must also corporates and other organizations must hire cybersecurity staff. It is ultimately the main duty of the organization to abide and protect their proprietary data and as well as any of their customer’s too.
So, the answer is simple. Narrow it down to the top-notch profiles that are in huge demand among the cybersecurity industry and hunt for it by building necessary skills and by obtaining required certifications.
Since our main moto is how to get there, at the best jobs in cybersecurity, through the rest of the blog we will focus on the most demand training and certification program that is offered by Sprintzeal which has a global standard of acceptance.
CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Personal
The accreditation and administration authority for this certification is taken up by the consortium of International Information System Security Certification. They promote the CISSP exam as a standard to evaluate the person who performs information security functions. The training program topics includes Cryptography Science, Security Management and Practices, and Access Control Systems. And educating among the students with eight domains of information system security.
- Security and Risk Management
- Security Engineering
- Security Operations
- Communications and Network Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Asset Security
- Security Assessment and Testing
- Software Development Security
CISA – Certified Information System Auditor
This certification issued as per the training guidelines issued by ISACA for those who are in charge of ensuring that business systems and an organization’s IT sectors are managed, monitored, and protected.
This certification includes a comprehensive testing and application process, after going through this, the certification is granted. By its global recognition standards, it plays a major role in enhancing the auditor's skills in assessing vulnerabilities, knowledge and monitoring IT controls in an organization. It is specifically designed for consultants, IT auditors, audit managers, and security professionals.
COBIT 5 Foundation
COBIT 5 (presently called COBIT 2019) is designed and developed for global acceptance by ISACA’s most famous information and technological framework. This is a professional certification that thrives in giving the knowledge to the aspirants on supreme enterprise IT governance.
This COBIT 5 Foundation course at SprintZeal includes six lessons, which cover the seven enablers and five principles that form the very basis of the COBIT 5 business framework. This also comes with complements such as Realtime scenarios and puzzles, courseware’s and materials.
Now, these certifications are unlike pay and purchase options, this comes only through experience, passion and aggressive training. So, certain pre-requisites has to be followed.
The candidates should have had a minimum of five years of cumulative work experience One should have the basic qualification of a college degree. Preferably from a technical background. Internships are acceptable (paid/unpaid) only after submission of documentation on organizations' letterhead. If one does not fall under relevant experience or educational standard that is required, then one has to obtain approved credentials from the (ISC)2 approved list.
Also, if there is work experience of 4+ years, it has to fall under two or more of the eight domains of (ISC)2 i.e. as follows;
Domain 1. Security and Risk Management
Domain 2. Asset Security
Domain 3. Security Architecture and Engineering
Domain 4. Communication and Network Security
Domain 5. Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Domain 6. Security Assessment and Testing
Domain 7. Security Operations
Domain 8. Software Development Security
There you go. You’ve almost done through it, but it’s not complete. At Sprintzeal we assist you based on your interest and by analyzing your core competence and potential, thereby mostly focusing on our best training through each individual.
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