aaronwdejong.net: A blog about life in IT with mental health.
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aaronwdejong.net
A Blog for Life in IT with Mental Health Starting my Journey I am starting my new journey today to go back into IT as I have overcome most of my mental health issues that were plaguing me before. I am starting my journey back into IT with the knowledge that I can be the…
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GIAC Security Essentials Certification Update
GIAC Security Essentials The GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC) is an exam that is essentially the same as learning five certifications in one. These certifications include the CompTIA Security+ and CySA+, and the Certified in Cybersecurity from ISC2. They also include the Network Defense Essentials from EC-Council, and the AWS Cloud Practitioner – Foundational. These are…
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Update on the Training
Training Update I have been training for the Certified in Cybersecurity recently. This would be scheduled around the middle of July. I currently have some more training to go through on Udemy and some more reading before I take this exam. Also planning on taking the CCNP ENCOR sometime in December of this year. Working…
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Change is Welcome in my Career
Changes to my Blogs and Articles There are some things that I have done over this week including setting up a new blog on aaron597.com. In addition, I have set up a new publication on Medium where I can add writers to the publication and get more reach. This new publication is called Aaron W.…
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Training and Focus Changes
Training For my training I am moving to a three-bucket system. The three-bucket system is that I am focusing on a primary, a secondary, and general skill sets. For the primary skill set I am working on my Computer Networking, Cybersecurity, and Network Security skills. On the secondary skill set I will be focusing on…
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New Joomla Project
Setting up the Project I have been setting up a Joomla Server on Akamai (Linode). To get to a point where I can write about the Joomla Server Install, I will be completing the project. I have been working on it through the LISH Console in Linode. There are some changes that I will work…
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Traveling on a Less Traveled Path
Article I have made another article on Medium that is called Network Penetration Testing Certifications which you can find at the following link: https://medium.com/@dejong.aaron/network-penetration-testing-certifications-d1ee997d3420 I put some of my blog posts for this year on Medium as well and plan to do more articles on the Medium site. This article goes into the certifications that…
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Adding Skills for the Future
Skills and Training Update I have been going through the Ethical Hacking Learning Path on LinkedIn Learning and noticed that I am liking the training material. I am doing more skills based things like learning more about an SOC Analyst role and responsibilities. There are some things like an SOC Analyst that I am not…
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Back on the Path
Path Forward There are some things that I learned more about than I would of normally. The detour was a success of sorts, I am working through some of the ISO 20000 training materials. My training will be put on LinkedIn and I will let you know more about that when I finish. Learning more…
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Attending to my Article
Article I have written an article on Medium called “My Story” and you can check it out at the provided link below. https://medium.com/@dejong.aaron/my-story-44e5df46f4be This article is about my journey coming back into IT and also for my career journey, where I want to be in 2031 with the CCIE: Enterprise Infrastructure, Certified Ethical Hacker, and…
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Plans for IT Manager Certifications
Working on IT Manager Certifications I have been working on some more certifications since the last blog post. These certifications are more for the IT Manager role. The certifications that I am working on are the ISO 20000 Foundation and the ISO 22301 Foundation from Certiprof. In addition, I am working on the Project+ for…
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