Hii i want to make career in network security i m new in this field could you plz help what shuld i do
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Hii i want to make career in network security i m new in this field could you plz help what shuld i do
Just get a CCNA qualification and then you can get a foot in the door to the networking world. Be prepared for a lot of boredom with that job though.
First thing you need to focus on is your computer certifications... getting a degree is nice but in my experiene certifications prove you actually know what your doing.. I work with a lot of people that have computer science degrees... and they know somethings... but I would expect them to know more
get some certs... A+, Net+, a few microsoft certs, a unix cert, and a few cisco certs will all help..
A degree does help aswell... so start with a bachelors in CIS, computer information systems..
Second... start looking for work.. your going to need a background in technology to be trusted with a network... you can outsource many jobs to india, but someone has to be on our soil running the networks at home... so that is making it a harder field to get into being you have to know your stuff to compete.
Find a job at a business doing pc repair, get in with geeksquad, find an internship...
dice.com , monster.com
I frequently get temp job offers from these 2 sites for tech work... some as simple as just swapping out computers 4pm-2am at an office building.. some more complex like doing phone tech support... it all works as reference and work experience.
Let's see - DON'T DO IT!
I wanted to be a bartender and never did! Now I get to deal with sober idiots!
Get networking knowledge (you may / may not want to do cert for it, if you have the cash than do it)
Then I would suggest SSCP (or go through the book for it) > CISSP > CISA > CISM
Then focus on GIAC certs (http://www.giac.org/certifications/)
Most valuable certs are CISSP and CISM ..
Since you're from India a word of advise, security isn't in yet so don't get bogged down if you don’t see immediate result..
Btw, although i don't like the cert at all if you just want to start making money in India then CEH is IN ! I don't know why but companies are crazy about CEH cert here..
ALL THE BEST.
I am a 4th year Network Security and Systems Administration major and I have found the following to be pretty useful:
Cisco's Packet Tracer is awesome for simulating and virtualizing network connections and network devices. It also helps one get pretty familiar with Cisco's IOS. http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/ne...ketTracer.html
I also have found VMware Workstation with the Virtual Network configuration options on top of Virtual Teams (logical groups of VMs) to be pretty useful with setting up virtualized operating systems with different network abilities. Virtual Network Adapters can be created in almost limitless quantities for each Virtual Machine, and custom configurations (bridged,nat,host only,...) can be configured for an adapter connected on Virtual LAN Segments. All of this makes it pretty easy to build a real network in a virtualized environment. Another tool which is pretty useful in a VMWare network is the FreeSCO (single floppy router) which can easily be installed as a Virtual Machine. In many cases I use this VM to route between two subnets or lan segments and it normally has an additional NAT'd adapter which I configure as the router's default gateway. This in turn allows for the entire virtual network to get access to the network (internet) that your host machine is connected to, but confines it to a single entry point on this router. http://www.freesco.org/
I hope this all makes sense, I'm not the best about getting my ideas and suggestions out of my head and into forum posts.
Hii Pawan
if you are new in this field I would suggest you to do first A+ certification and then MCSE CCNA & CCNP certifications if you really want to make career in this field and for Network security you can go for CEH v6 certification by EC-Council.
I have recently completed my
all basic hardware, MCSE , CCNA & CCNP from Jodo Institute. It is located
at Okhla, Delhi. I tell u these people are really professional and have
trained me and my batch mates for real industry scenerios & experience.
Please visit the link for more information http://jodoinstitute.com
Wow , you guys have alot of time on your hands.
Takes me like 6 months to write 1 M$ exam o_0
Thanks jack
as per your information i went to Jodo institute and i took admission in MCSE , I liked their infrastructure , and trainer are really professional after completing my MCSE i'll join CCNA course from thier
hi! i want to make my career in networking and network security and to be a professional.suggest me what should i do and what should i start for this networking and network security studies?which is the best institute and how much it cost?duration of the course?what is the career in this ..???
The best institute is your room with a work desk. You can get a table from Ikea really cheap. Load as many computers as you can afford on it and that is what it costs + connection to the net and maybe books. Most IT schools are a joke. Actually most college IT programs are too. No matter if you can teach the class and the teacher new things they want you to pass stupid classes that have nothing to do with computing before they hand you a piece of paper saying you can do this without drooling on yourself long enough to do a test.Quote:
Originally Posted by syed waseem
Self taught is generally more of what they want anyway. Unless you're going for someone like Best Buy or some Computer store. But if you want an actual IT Security job, just work at home. It takes a while, and you don't have a teacher, but you do know more.
I started college and got into Networking as a Major. When I got there, the "star student" was a guy who could tell you everything in the book, front to back. The problem was that I sat down with the book and a guy who showed up after me, who was a Systems Programmer, for like 20 years (Writing code for processors on Unix) and we went over the book high lighting errors. I gave the book back with the text that was wrong in the book, and the other guy and I both said there was a problem. COLLEGE LEVEL NETWORKING BOOKS WERE WRONG! I don't mean typos, I mean, flat out wrong.
The Professor re-designed the course to use the books less and warned everyone. He hadn't seen these particular books before so it wasn't his fault, but he didn't have time to check them either before classes started. Obviously he was greatful.
LOL Seems Gore really did go to college.
My help desk girls dropped my business card at the University of Phoenix booth during a company sponsored job fair. (Really Funny LADIES!)
So even though the title says Systems Administrator MCSE, CCNA, CCNA Security, the relentless sales guys kept calling me. Eventually they pissed off the bastard, i.e., ME and I made an appointment. There is a local school about 6 mile from where I work.
After discussing my formal education and the amount of time I have been out of school it was decided that I needed to take intro classes.
After reading the syllabus for Intro to computing (Computer Science type class), Introduction to Database Design and Introduction to Networking. I discovered that I would learn how to set up a token ring network and that relational databases weren't discussed until year 4. WTF?
Plus it was like $600 per credit hour?
I sat in on a presentation on networking, these guys were reading straight out of the Cisco intro to networking books. Remember Flintstone, inc?
I met an instructor for the Intro to DB design. Kid was no more than 30 and a recent graduate of the school.
I kindly excused myself and decided to send the $70,000+ it would have cost to get a "IT Degree" from the University of the Galacticly Stupid to this nice Nigerian woman who is trying to get her husbands money out of the country...
Go? The password policy in use there was written by me. And who got called when the sys admin forgot to put the password down for a Windows 2000 Server and the teacher needed it changed so they could use it? ;) (Yea that really did happen.... I know the system admin, he was in a few of my classes, my A trumped his C on the final).