If you have 10+ years of PM/BA experience (Banking Industry) and have moved your skill set into the IAM space to break into the tech field (with limited tech background) how should 1 go about shaping their career? I’ve got my MBA, PMP & a host of SAFe certs. I’m planning to acquire the Security+ cert this year, however, I’m having trouble discerning what comes next. I want to set myself up to get to the next level. This is my 3rd year as a Sr analyst @ $120k and I feel like I capped out. Help.

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What exactly do you want to do in cybersecurity? With an MBA you could be of enormous value in GRC either consulting or in house. Security+ is a good place to start, I would also recommend A+ and Network+ first as they are fundamental to security. I wouldn't spend time on learning pen testing as it is heavily commoditized and is a race to the bottom in pricing because everyone does it.

A hot growint field is DevSecOps if you are handy with softwarw dev.

Good certs to leverage your existing skills would be ISACA CISM or CISA. Also ISO 27001 LA.

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Always happy to help. I did the transition to cyber some time ago and learned a lot of lessons. Feel free to reach out anytime.

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Spend the money on sans certs (huge investment though).

I would get the 401 or 501 cert (security essentials or advanced security essentials) and then I would layer on a 504 or 588 (pen testing) and then I'd top it off with some sort of cloud security course (540 or 510k).

Since your career is a long term deal - you should look at this large investment the same way

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Do not pay for your SANS certs yourself. Big4 will let you get 1 per year, and maybe other companies if you ask. They're specialized enough where you can make an easy value proposition for getting it paid for.

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