Cybersecurity and Information Security Analysts: A Practical Career Guide

This book explores the growing, lucrative, exciting field of cybersecurity (also called information security or InfoSec) in an approachable, interesting, inviting way, geared towards middle school and high school students. The book covers many titles within this profession, such as security analysts/engineers, security architects, security administrators, security software developers, and cryptographers/cryptanalysts.

For each of these five sub-areas, the book explains the pros and cons, the educational requirements, projected annual wages, personality traits that match, market projections, working conditions and expectations, and more¾all laid out in lists, images, tables and charts, and lots of other graphically pleasing elements that are easy to consume and understand. You'll even see read interviews from five real InfoSec professionals who work in the field, with real-world advice, stories, and anecdotes! The goal is to teach younger readers enough about being an InfoSec professional, to give them a clear view as to whether this field is a good fit for them, as well as to give them some direction and advice for preparing for this career while in high school.