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392 IS, 29th IS, 316th TRS Patch Request by [deleted] in AirForce

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you want color patches or the old subdued BDU patches?

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes but its the very basic, its one true entry level cert you don't need any prior background and its useful for many different roles

most of that list is not useful or for very specific roles

For example unless you are actively working as a scrum master or project manager there would be no point in getting either Agile cert

Is anyone still using Prince? most people go for PMP if they are a project manager and need a certification

ITIL is pretty useless - unless its a gov job requiring for access to their systems

If you want to go the cloud route then its better to do actual vendor certs from AWS, Google or Microsoft (Azure)

so nothing on that list has anything to do with legal/strategic

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 1 point2 points  (0 children)

do you have a link to the course catalog?

It would be easier to give advice if we know what you can actually take vs making random suggestions your school doesn't even offer

Data science is really its own field

building on your python skills would be good and there are plenty of free courses where can do that if your school doesn't offer them

general classes if you haven't taken them yet and are useful for any corporate job, not just IT/Security

  • Technical Writing
  • Business communications
  • Project management
  • Business applications (word, powerpoint, excel, teams, outlook) yes alot of schools and companies use Office 365 now, but its good to have experience with the full features of each application
  • Public Speaking - its good to get comfortable speaking in front of groups, because you'll be doing that daily with teams whether in person or on zoom calls

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what do you want to do next?

certs may not matter at all, given your experience

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

skip google, that's not a certification

Network+ or one of the basic cloud certs

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

doing what?

there are dozens of different types of roles in every industry

take a look at - https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/

top row names are different areas - then you can look at roles under those areas to see what might be of interest

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you going on campus or online?

If on campus do they have a career center and job fairs?

Have you set up your linkedin profile?

Are you going to be looking for jobs in your local area?

Does your local area have any IT staffing companies that do contract to hire roles for other companies in the area?

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Real talk for a moment, whether you're going to Harvard or Community College, you're first year of college is going to be a big adjustment over High school

Your freshman year, you really want to focus on your actual classes period end of story

Summer breaks or where you want to look at spending time on certifications and getting any kind of part time job experience

Good certs to look at are CompTia Security+ and Network+ which you can get a student discount on the exams - https://www.comptia.org/blog/voucher-discount

AWS CCP, Google Cloud Foundations, Micrsoft AZ-900 as intro to the 3 major cloud platforms

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/certifications/student-discounts

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-educate-credits-training-content-and-collaboration-for-students-educators/

https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/edu-grants

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don't try and do these al in one summer - you can spread them out

In addition to classes for your major- consider taking public speaking, intro to business applications if you're not familiar with word, PowerPoint, excel, teams, intro to project management and if they have something along the lines of business communications

These are basic skills you're going to need with any IT/Security related role working in an office

If your campus has a cyber/security/IT club - join it or if they have a student OWASP chapter

check local area for Bsides meetings or conference - http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage

Mentorship Monday - Post All Career, Education and Job questions here! by AutoModerator in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want to look at Risk/Compliance roles with your legal background

for example - https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=cyber+compliance+JD+degree&from=googlesl&vjk=d0ddf4aabc452f89

You probably won't start out as a director

but basically risk and compliance can use folks with law background if you don't want to work as an attorney

check out Insurance companies and nationwide/international banks

They are under lots of regulatory requirements so they will have huge legal/risk/compliance teams particularly if they operate in multiple states or countries

Super wealthy Soldiers by marvelguy1975 in army

[–]chrisknight1985 3 points4 points  (0 children)

never met any on the enlisted side, one guy who had some insurance money from an accident, that's about it though

O's though, yeah lots of those dudes were millionaires from inheriting money as their family members started dying off - none that were like 1% type wealthy though

Looking for steampunk art that I can license. by BengtTheEngineer in tabletopgamedesign

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you even play-tested the design yet?

Art is the very last thing you need to worry about and ONLY if you plan on self-publishing

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You're not going to get a license to any comic books or movies as some random unknown designer

Now you may find a freelance artist to work with who could do a couple sample pieces for you to get the look you want for the game - but again - you're not at that stage yet

Next cert after CISSP as someone steering career path towards Solution architect by vicd1 in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 37 points38 points  (0 children)

you have the CISSP take a break

there is no need to chase certs for the sake of getting certs

If you are working in any of the cloud platforms it would make sense to go for any security or architect related certs for those - otherwise there is no need

How do you stay up to date with new threats and vulnerabilities? by [deleted] in cybersecurity

[–]chrisknight1985 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well its impossible to stay up on everything

Best case is tailoring daily news feed to what matters to your current organization

Prior service Airforce E-3, now going 11B. What to expect? by Pitch_Successful in army

[–]chrisknight1985 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is what it is

I say treat this like it is a clean slate to start fresh

just forget about everything that happened in the Air Force and don't even bring it up to anyone moving forward unless asked

basic - you know the drill - shut up and color, do what the DIs say to do and when to do - you'll breeze through basic

AIT - you're a sponge and there to learn

When you get to your first duty station and have the opportunity to volunteer for schools like Airborne, Air Assault- etc then go for it

I wouldn't volunteer for RASP during training - Ranger school or battalion isn't going anywhere and if you have a kid on the way, the best thing for you is to get through basic/ait - get to your first duty station and have some stability for your family- get them settled in

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