Opportunities in

Cybersecurity
Learning Objectives

• To introduce the
different
opportunities in
cybersecurity
• To introduce the
different tools used
by cybersecurity
people
• To enumerate the
cybersecurity
certifications.

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Opportunities in Cybersecurity
• System Administration – responsible for system or specific components of a system.
• Install, configure, and maintain hardware and software.
• Adhere to enforce policies and procedures.
• Provide technical supports to the users
• Perform regular backups and data recovery as needed.
• Network Engineer – responsible for building, maintaining and protecting networks.
• Analyze design and requirement from different departments, and make appropriate changes to network
topology.
• Operate network services and systems, to include hardware and virtual environments.
• Incident Response and Forensics – responsible for identifying and responding to incidents.
• Follow a standard process to analyze data to determine if an incident occurred, the severity of the incident,
and assess the effectiveness of solutions.
• Use forensic tools to harvest data for civil, administrative and criminal investigations.
• Offensive Security and Penetration Testing – responsible for identifying security gaps and vulnerabilities by
emulating threat actors.
• Perform security analysis against the network of anything from small non-profits to multi-national
corporations
• Use combination of technical and social approaches to find weaknesses in the target organization, then
document the remediation options for those weaknesses
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Cybersecurity Tools
• System Administration
• Wireshark - Packet Sniffing
• Powershell
• RDP
• Network Engineer
• Wireshark
• Commands: tracert, ping, nslookup, ipconfig, netstat
• Speedtest.net
• IP calculator
• puTTY
• Incident Response and Forensics
• OSSIM
• Snort
• Offensive Security and Penetration Testing
• Kali
• Metasploit
• Cain and Abel
• and many more…
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Cybersecurity Certifications
• System Administration
• A+
• Security+
• Server+
• Network Engineer
• CCNA, CCNP
• Network+
• MCSA
• MCSE
• Incident Response and Forensics
• ECIH
• GCIH
• CEIH
• Offensive Security and Penetration Testing
• SEC+
• CEH
• CPT
• Pentest+
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References

• Perry, J., Underhill, K., “Introduction to IT and Cybersecurity”,

www.cybrary.it , 2019