Neophyte Network Security

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I have no experience with network security, I have spent the last 11 years in the real estate business (property management / leasing/sales), I am going to enter the network security profession, I am very interested in pentesting and intrusion detection and I have been studying very hard for and will take my SY0-401 exam in December, once I pass:



what other certification(s) would be valuable to pursue?

what are some entry - level jobs / job titles I should look for?

what particular software(s) would you recommend I become familiar with?

where / how can I practice network configuration and or pentesting without having to download a bunch of sh*& (I am paranoid about downloading anything)?



Any responses / advice is greatly appreciate.

 

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There are a lot of free Virtual Machines you can hack, typically they call it 'root the box'.

https://www.vulnhub.com/
http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/r00t-box/
https://www.nuharborsecurity.com/Application-Security-Testing-Tutorial-via-Rooting-Hackademics-RTB1

You download the VM and use it in VirtualBox or Vmware player.

Once you get good at that you can start hacking networks of machines on virtual networks. You pay a security firm to attack a honeypot network.

Pentesting is not the real estate game, its not strolling around getting easy money, you are looking at 10+ years hard graft to become a decent security expert.

You can google infosec training online
http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/free-infosec-training-for-it-pros,1-2707.html

There is a lot of stuff about.