Welcome Antoinette, Certifications can be useful if you don't have working experience. Honestly, the best kept secret is to build experience by working on open-source projects. For example, just doing some of the routine housekeeping described at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/GettingStarted and then https://fedoraproject.org/easyfix/#fedora-infrastructure will give you the kind of experience that brings very high salaries. It will also give you the kind of contacts that can get you in touch with recruiters for those jobs. For example, I know a lot of folks looking to hire analysts for Security operations centers (SOC) and you can feel free to contact me directly if you want more information. All the best, Blaise at gmail On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 8:40 AM Antonette Caldwell < [email protected]> wrote: > I will introduce myself. My name is Antonette, as you can see my fsa id is > acaldwell. > > I have been working with a company as a tech support for almost 1 and a > half. I was introduced to Fedora back in 2014, and I've been doing (on and > off) web development since 2015. I > become pretty interested in the security world, and was hoping for my foot > in the door into a cyber security analyst type position. I am working > toward a couple of certificates, such as security plus (which I have heard > is useless in some places), and the SANS certifications as well. > > I posted earlier in the Spins mailing lists, so I was given useful links > to start with. Thank you for taking the time to read my inquires and my > introduction. > _______________________________________________ > security mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > -- LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/blaisepabon/> | Quora <https://www.quora.com/profile/Blaise-Pabon> | Github <https://github.com/blaisep> “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” --African proverb
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