ABOUT THIS EPISODE
If your job title doesn't have the word "security" in it, it's easy to look at a security job posting and assume none of your experience counts, even after years in system administration, networking, helpdesk, or cloud operations. In this episode, Professor Simon makes the case that you're probably wrong about that, and gives you a practical way to find out for sure.
He walks through a three-level framework for sorting real IT experience by how security-relevant it actually is, works through concrete examples from helpdesk, system administration, networking, and cloud operations, and covers how to connect your strongest evidence to one specific role, close the gaps in your current job, and describe all of it honestly, on a resume and when someone actually asks you, "Do you have security experience?"
In this episode you'll learn:
- Why not having a security title doesn't mean you have no security experience
- The three levels of experience: work that touches security, security-relevant experience, and direct security experience
- A simple test for sorting your own IT work into those three levels
- Real examples from helpdesk, system administration, networking, and cloud operations
- How to connect your strongest evidence to one specific security role
- How to answer "Do you have security experience?" in an interview, honestly and credibly
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