IT Cert Ready

Cybersecurity

A general cybersecurity progression for practitioners who want hands-on security operations experience, threat detection skills, and a path toward professional credentials like CISSP.

Recommended experience

Ideal for newcomers through mid-career security practitioners.

Career outcomes

  • Security analyst or SOC roles
  • Security operations and monitoring
  • Threat detection and incident response
  • Path toward security engineering or management
Begin Recommended Certification

Certification progression

Follow the steps below from foundational knowledge toward advanced specialization. Each certification links to live practice content on IT Cert Ready.

Career paths are recommended learning progressions. Certification providers may have separate experience or eligibility requirements.

  1. 1

    FOUNDATION

    Foundation

    Core security concepts, controls, and operations fundamentals.

  2. 2

    INTERMEDIATE

    Intermediate

    Security analytics, vulnerability management, and response workflows.

  3. 3

    ADVANCED

    Advanced

    Broad professional security knowledge across domains and governance.

  4. 4

    SPECIALIZATION

    Choose Your Specialization

    Optional branches based on offensive security, cloud, or architecture interests.

    Choose based on your focus — these are parallel options, not a required sequence.