Are you looking to get Security+ certified? Are you a total n00b like I was? I may have a few reflections on the process to share with you. Now, six months after my initial goal to take the Security+ exam, I am finally certified. Hopefully, you won’t do what I did.

At the start of 2019 I was managing a small niche art library, having graduated with Bachelors of Fine Art some years prior. I have always been a technologically gifted person, but I did not have any proper “tech” experience at the outset of my Security+ studies.

By May 2019 I was on the way to a big and glorious career change and a couple months into Evolve Security Academy’s remote cybersecurity bootcamp. The Security+ certification seemed to me like a perfect way to demonstrate that I have the knowledge it takes to work in the industry — and I still feel this way. For career changers like myself, I believe it can be a critical first certification. …