• Welcome to the Online Discussion Groups, Guest.

    Please introduce yourself here. We'd love to hear from you!

    If you are a CompTIA member you can find your regional community here and get posting.

    This notification is dismissable and will disappear once you've made a couple of posts.
  • We will be shutting down for a brief period of time on 9/24 at around 8 AM CST to perform necessary software updates and maintenance; please plan accordingly!

James Wilson

Professor at broward College
Aug 3, 2019
1
0
congratulations on getting your A+, if you want to stay with CompTIA, and go into Cyber Security, you want to continue with Network+ and Security+. If you have little knowledge on networking and security principals, these paths will fill in those gaps. Understanding how networks work, subnetting, VLAN, network protocol and security concepts all are covered in these courses. After that Cysa+ or Pentest+ would be you next path. Cysa+ is more in the Security Defense side, Pentest is how to conduit penetration test. both are good to know, but I would say Cysa+ is more in line with Cyber security, Pentest+ is good to enhance your cybersecurity knowledge, but both are good to have. Remember you need to crawl, walk then run. I have seen make students jump into cyber security course without understanding basic networks and get lost. Getting a Stonge foundation with networking, "a little coding helps" and security principals and you be read for any advance security courses. Good Luck in your studies