Hi guys
Just wondering if any IT Security guys could shed a light on this for me as per the thread title?
I’ve been in IT around 18 years now with the last 10 or so spent as an Infrastructure Engineer. I currently work for a small-ish MSP in that same role. (Coming from in house IT this was a huge change in pace but I’m enjoying it and there’s always something to keep me occupied.)
Knowledge wise I ’m a Jack of all trades meaning I know a decent amount about storage, compute, cloud, email/exchange/365, networking and most recently, firewalls. (Didn’t get a lot of experience with networking and firewalls at my in house IT role due to having a team specialising in that)
With my current knowledge in mind what courses etc should I be looking at for a move to a more security focused role? Our current security guys are a mixture of an ex infrastructure engineer who is now the security manager and various apprentices. They seem to handle FW updates, AV, mail scanning, Intune/GPO security policies etc.
I’m already studying for my fortigate exams and there is a lot of generalised stuff around security but should I be looking at stuff like Security+, Azure security courses etc? Are there any other courses I’m not expecting to be useful? Like Powershell, other scripting, Linux etc.
I’m guessing larger companies may break security roles down further so maybe choosing a specific area would be best?
Any experiences good/bad, people who have moved between the disciplines, current people in security roles etc would be good to hear.
Just wondering if any IT Security guys could shed a light on this for me as per the thread title?
I’ve been in IT around 18 years now with the last 10 or so spent as an Infrastructure Engineer. I currently work for a small-ish MSP in that same role. (Coming from in house IT this was a huge change in pace but I’m enjoying it and there’s always something to keep me occupied.)
Knowledge wise I ’m a Jack of all trades meaning I know a decent amount about storage, compute, cloud, email/exchange/365, networking and most recently, firewalls. (Didn’t get a lot of experience with networking and firewalls at my in house IT role due to having a team specialising in that)
With my current knowledge in mind what courses etc should I be looking at for a move to a more security focused role? Our current security guys are a mixture of an ex infrastructure engineer who is now the security manager and various apprentices. They seem to handle FW updates, AV, mail scanning, Intune/GPO security policies etc.
I’m already studying for my fortigate exams and there is a lot of generalised stuff around security but should I be looking at stuff like Security+, Azure security courses etc? Are there any other courses I’m not expecting to be useful? Like Powershell, other scripting, Linux etc.
I’m guessing larger companies may break security roles down further so maybe choosing a specific area would be best?
Any experiences good/bad, people who have moved between the disciplines, current people in security roles etc would be good to hear.