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A career is a chosen occupation or profession, which is undertaken for a longer period of a person’s life.

A career is a chosen occupation or profession, which is undertaken for a longer period of a person’s life. For "having a job" to be a career, the job has to come with opportunities for progress.

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How do you trust your developer to be competent security wise?

Let's say that you want to hire a developer to deal with a part of a project in which you don't have any expertise. How can you have confidence that he knows what he's doing since you have no idea what he's doing? I know that the question might be…
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Legal precaution to work as freelance pentester

I got some extra work as a freelance pentester. I was contacted by a security company to help them pentest one of their client website. What are the standard legal precaution that I have to take so that I’m covered in case of problem? Is there any…
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Best way to get "into the security industry"?

Possible Duplicate: What are the career paths in the computer security field? I've been called a "jack of all trades" guy, who has been working in health care and finance for about seven years. Most of my positions, including my current one of…
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How to show your work to potential clients as a pentester?

While freelance software developers can show their work to potential clients by building personal projects or by showing their previous client's project how can a pentester do the same? A pentester can't provide audit reports of previous clients as…
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Late to becoming interested in career in information security. How much disadvantaged am I against those talented people since young?

relatively new to stack exchange and I was about 1 year in my career as a Network Security Engineer before I am needed now by the same company as a Special Projects Engineer to help a department set-up a software they procured which rely on SQL…
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Certification courses from a novice to professional

I would like to know the list of certification courses that I can start as a beginner and become proficient in the field of network security and from which website or institution can I take the training, appear for exam. Also please let me know how…
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I want to be a cybersecurity professional, but it feels as if I am so far behind. What do I need to do to catch up?

At the moment, I am going into my Sophomore year majoring in Cybersecurity at a state university. Overall, the learning process has felt comparatively slow with others my age. While the courses I am taking at college are teaching me many of the…
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Application and Information Security software development market

This is a question more about how the market is for a software engineer with a focus on application and information security, mainly development and software engineering, either of secure practices while developing apps/systems, or of actual…
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Changing Horses Mid-Stream: A New Career in Technology

So, after a few years in the professional world of sales, I have finally stumbled onto something that I actually enjoy doing and being around: the wonderful world of IT. Perhaps I am crazy? Anyways, after a little thinking and reading, I have…
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Become master in two different infosec fields

I need career advice. I'm deeply,insanely interested in two fields of cyber security: Malware Analysis Web/System/Network Penetration Testing I have lots of learning resources about pentesting and malware analysis, books,video courses,papers and…
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Does the value of security certifications for hiring/being hired decrease for more experienced positions?

In an industry where there are a dizzying array of security certifications to be had, many of them are either entry-level certifications, or are based around a particular area of specialization (malware, pentest, etc...). While these are of value…
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Pursuing a career in Cybersecurity

I'm getting ready to start my undergraduate studies and I am little confused as to where I should place my studies. I like solving puzzles, analyzing data fun and find exploits and pentesting. I want to do this as a carreer in some way, but I am not…
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How to Estimate the Value of GIAC certification to future career growth and earnings?

I am currently a CISA exam passer having passed my Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam from ISACA in June of last summer. I currently work as an IT auditor to accumulate the work experience necessary to obtain CISA…
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InfoSec Jobs without College Degree With Work Experience?

This question as been asked before it seems, but I could use some advice myself for my specific situation. I am very frustrated with my university. I study software engineering and I am very bored. I finished my first year of college awhile back and…
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PenTesting as a career guidlines

it's my first post so bear with me. I live in England and am currently studying A-levels at specialist IT school and I am doing BTEC IT, Maths, Computer Science(learning c#) and Product design. I have done a few MOS's and plan to take an MTA…
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