Category: Certification Posts
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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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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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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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Detour on the Path
Detour There has been a slight detour and I have started studying for my first Certiprof certification. This is the ISO 20000 Foundation Exam, and I have been looking for something different to do for some time. The ISO 20000 Foundation exam will help me with ITSM or IT Service Management standards. It will be…
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Reading and Training Journal
Reading I’ve read only five books so far this year and have a little left to read in the CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam N10-007 book. This book is the sixth book that I am reading this year. I have been putting it off to read and need to refresh my knowledge with this book. Will…
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Goals for my IT Career
Current Goals I would like to set up my training in accordance with my current goals. For the goals that I have, I would like to do a second attempt for the Certified in Cybersecurity. After this, I will be doing the SC-900 and waiting until later in the year to do the Security+. Pushing…
