IT Infrastructure Career
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I am Lakshmana Shiva from India interested in IT Security but am unsure of What I want to pursue or how to switch from what I am doing currently into a security role. Can anyone suggest me ?
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@Lakshmana said:
Hi All,
I am Lakshmana Shiva from India interested in IT Security but am unsure of What I want to pursue or how to switch from what I am doing currently into a security role.Can anyone suggest me ?Hi Lakshmana,
What IT experience do you currently have?
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@lance I am currently working as a Desktop Support Engineer and I have just 6 months experience in this field
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Visit https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/wiki/start Start looking through the links, this should keep you busy for awhile and hopefully answer some questions for you.
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@lance Thank you Sir.I will see the above link and acknowledge you
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@Lakshmana said:
@lance Thank you Sir.I will see the above link and acknowledge you
No Problem. Welcome to the ML community.
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First thing is to decide what part of infrastructure do you want to go into. Systems, networking, databases, applications, development, etc. Then in each of those there are sub-fields. In systems you could go into Windows, Linux, Solaris, BSD, etc. Even without Linux you might go into Red Hat, Suse or Ubuntu, for example. Making these choices will guide where you want to go next.
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Likely you will want to pursue certification. Six months is not a lot of experience, and the only way to get experience is over time. So while you are accumulating time in the field, this is the time to get certifications and beef up your resume in other ways.
If you have no certs at all, start with the CompTIA Network+ cert. It if fairly easy and applies to nearly all IT careers.
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@scottalanmiller said:
asy and applies to nearly all IT careers.
Yes Sir.I choose the field as Networking and in that I will follow the Comptia Network +
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@Lakshmana said:
@scottalanmiller said:
asy and applies to nearly all IT careers.
Yes Sir.I choose the field as Networking and in that I will follow the Comptia Network +
Network+ is very fundamental. It doesn't apply solely to networking careers. Even as a desktop tech, you should have the Network+.
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@scottalanmiller Yes Sir I will develop my Network + career
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@Lakshmana said:
IT Security
If you are referring to Network Security the holy grail used to be the CISSP but, that would be much later one when you delveop entry level certs, and then network admin certs. However, many are saving the cert isn't quite as valuable as it used to be.
Experience, proven knowledge, good resume/references, and learning the proper way to do things and continually learning new things is a lot more powerful than certs though. Certs get HR to look at you, not much else.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Experience, proven knowledge, good resume/references, and learning the proper way to do things and continually learning new things is a lot more powerful than certs though. Certs get HR to look at you, not much else.
For general applications at various places, the easiest way to get a job is to HAVE a cert or degree that HR will look at in the first place.
I agree that certs and degrees are generally useless once people have a certain amount of experience. But not everyone is able to start off as an intern or other similar task.
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@Lakshmana said:
Hi All,
I am Lakshmana Shiva from India interested in IT Security but am unsure of What I want to pursue or how to switch from what I am doing currently into a security role.Can anyone suggest me ?Yeah, don't.
I had a long and involved, probably racist, response, but it boils down to this. If you have to ask, you will never know. The hubris of thinking you have been a desktop grunt for 6 months and think that qualifies you to jump into security says how little you actually have for experience.
Go work, get experience, and maybe in a few years, re-approach this.
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@PSX_Defector said:
Go work, get ex
yes I know sir.My long term goal is Security side.So I am just getting information about that field thats it
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@PSX_Defector Dude.... Lucky I'm not in the same room as you right now.
@Lakshmana For security you have a lot of reading / learning to do. There are a ton of courses online to get you rolling, others will have some better resources for you than I can suggest right at the moment. I wish you all the best!
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@MattSpeller said:
@PSX_Defector Dude.... Lucky I'm not in the same room as you right now.
Let's just say that I do not appreciate the IT folks of a certain subcontinent at this moment. And if you knew what I've had to deal with their pure unadulterated stupidity, unprofessionalism, and plain jane don't give a [moderated] attitude, you would be in the same boat too.
As they say, dey took our jerbs! Literally in this case.
[moderator message: Please keep it professional]
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@PSX_Defector said:
Let's just say that I do not appreciate the IT folks of a certain subcontinent at this moment. And if you knew what I've had to deal with their pure unadulterated stupidity, unprofessionalism, and plain jane don't give a shit attitude, you would be in the same boat too.
As they say, dey took our jerbs! Literally in this case.
Quit this while you're behind man. At the very minimum it does not belong in this thread.
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@MattSpeller said:
@PSX_Defector said:
Let's just say that I do not appreciate the IT folks of a certain subcontinent at this moment. And if you knew what I've had to deal with their pure unadulterated stupidity, unprofessionalism, and plain jane don't give a shit attitude, you would be in the same boat too.
As they say, dey took our jerbs! Literally in this case.
Quit this while you're behind man. At the very minimum it does not belong in this thread.
[full reply moderated out due to community guideline violation]
[moderator message: Please keep it professional personal opinions on this type of thing are not in line with the OP]
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@PSX_Defector Just because you had some bad experience with one or two guys, please do not consider everyone that way. Those kinds of people are in every country. I've seen kids who excel in IT just out of pure interest in learning and no experience. If @Lakshmana wants to know some details on whatever he wants to pursue, we just need to share the info.
Honestly I could see the same unprofessionalism in your comments, we are all IT Pros and are here to share our knowledge, learn from
each one of them.
