Let’s team up

for security
A new plan to create more well-skilled
(and well-paid) cybersecurity pros
Introduction:
The cybersecurity challenge—and opportunity

The unrelenting headlines about cyberattacks The deficit of qualified cybersecurity specialists
from ransomware to international cyberwarfare seems to be expanding
as precursor to invasion remind us of one thing:
This skills gap is already costing money.
The importance and need for highly skilled
professionals to defend and secure our critical

71%
systems of employers have incurred damages
because of cyber talent deficit3
Trouble is, there simply aren’t enough of them

And these are great jobs with some of the

Consider this highest salaries in the tech field

Consider this –between 2020 and 2025, there will

be a growth of 7 million jobs in security and Some are full-time cybersecurity jobs, like a
privacy worldwide1 chief information security officer, or CISO.
Others involve a combination of cybersecurity
and other IT functions.
7,000,000
new cybersecurity jobs worldwide
but only 4.2 million trained
candidates

Hold this up against an estimated pool of

cybersecurity specialists of only 4.2 million
That’s a gap of almost 2.8 million unfilled jobs2
And the number of cybersecurity jobs is
expected to more than double between now
and 2025

Cybersecurity jobs more than

2x double by 2025

1 Industry Skills Report2021, Coursera

2A Resilient Cybersecurity Profession Charts the Path Forward, (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 2021,
(ISC)2, 2021
3 3 Key Statistics from Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2022, Swiss Cyber Institute, March 10, 2022
Skill up for security:
Steps to higher cloud security, compliance, and
identity skills

To support your next level of capability and fill

one of those open positions, you need a plan
Here are three steps to jumpstart your journey
to the security, compliance, and identity skills
you need
And, with help from NetCom Learning, you
have the structure and resources you need to
empower yourself and your teams as they
expand their technical skill sets.

Familiarize yourself with the

1 skills map and your milestones
• You can find recommended
skilling journeys and the
tracks for learners in the
Security, Compliance, and
Identity Journey handbook.
Identify the skills, from the
2 basics on, that you need
• Match your planned career
direction and next steps with
your skilling path
• You’ll find that each journey is
designed to help identify
where to start and where to
go based on their specific role
or projects.

3 Muster your resources

• After determining which
journey is the right fit, find
courses, training
opportunities, and other
important information that
sets your team up for success.
Your security, compliance, and
identity certification options

Microsoft Certified: Security, Microsoft Certified: Identity and

1 Compliance, and Identity 3 Access Administrator Associate
Fundamentals
• Gain the skills to design,
For students, business users, or IT implement, and operate an
professionals organization’s identity and access
• This fundamentals certification management systems using Azure
gives you a firm grasp of a range Active Directory.
of topics in the rapidly growing • Manage tasks such as providing
field of cybersecurity. secure authentication and
• A first step to advancing to role- authorization access to enterprise
based certifications in security applications.
operations, identity and access • You’ll also learn to troubleshoot,
management, and information monitor, and report on the
protection. identity and access environment.

Microsoft Certified: Security Microsoft Certified: Information

2 Operations Analyst Associate 4 Protection Administrator Associate
• Collaborate with organizational • This certification prepares you to
stakeholders to secure take on responsibility for
information technology systems translating requirements and
for the organization. compliance controls into technical
implementation.
• Help reduce organizational risk by
rapidly remediating active attacks • You’ll be prepared to assist
in the environment, advising on organizational control owners to
improvements to threat become and stay compliant and
protection practices, and referring implement technology that
violations of organizational supports policies and controls
policies to appropriate necessary to sufficiently address
stakeholders. regulatory requirements for their
organization.
Your security, compliance, and
identity certification options

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security

5 Engineer Associate
• Manage the security posture,
identify and remediate
vulnerabilities, perform threat
modeling, implementing threat
protection, and respond to
security incident escalations.
• This course gives you the toolkit
to manage security and access,
implement platform protection,
and to manage your security
operations.

Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity

6 Architect Expert
• Design solutions that align with
security best practices and
priorities
• Design security operations,
identity, and compliance
capabilities
• Design security solutions for
infrastructure
• Design security solutions for
applications and data
Start your Microsoft Security Skilling
Journey Today with NetCom Learning

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NetCom Learning's Microsoft Enterprise Skilling & Certifications support IT pros, developers, data & AI and security
professionals in your organization to get the skills they need to cover all the aspects of your digital transformation —
managing your on-premises, hybrid, or cloud infrastructure; innovating with the best-in class applications; and supporting
apps and infrastructure with data and analytics, all with the proper security considerations.

With our immersive and hands-on approach to role-based skilling, you will be ready to close the skill gaps of your
workforce and leverage the full potential of technologies like Microsoft Azure, Security, Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and
Microsoft 365.

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workflows, projects, use cases, and regulatory compliance requirements.

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