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How to pursue a career in Cybersecurity
In this episode, John Bottoms shares what it's like to be head of cybersecurity at Mozilla Firefox and gives some examples of the projects and issues he and his team tackle.
This career field has a very diverse set of specialties to explore, like evaluating security level risks associated with merger and acquisitions targets, incident response, disaster recovery, and data management to name a few.
John has a large scope of experience working his way up through IT and then transferring his skillset to focus on cybersecurity. If you're wondering were to get started, then this episode is for you.
Links to specific certification programs mentioned during the interview and other show notes are at https://jobguppy.com/cybersecurity/head-of-cybersecurity-john-bottoms/