So, I decided to take a Meg-cation from work (because it is spring break and why shouldn’t I take a few days off). Well, I am also struggling at work right now because I want to do more, we are just light on work right now, so I need to find a way to separate myself from the rest of the crowd and show more value in myself. I have been wanting to take the CISSP but that is way too advance for entry level. I found the Google Cybersecurity Certificate program on Coursera that I decided to enroll in.

This Certificate is a series of 8 courses to help become an entry-level Cybersecurity Analyst. I am hoping this will help me get a promotion at my current job and at the very least become an Identity and Access Management (IAM) Analyst. IAM is at least one of the domains of CISSP so this will be a very good foundation for growing on.

I was able to breeze through the first course and was really stoked to start the second. Then I started psyching myself out for the second course for some reason, thinking this is too much, it is too hard, I can’t do it, I’m an imposter. So far I have completed everything except the final audit. Yes, I can cheese it, and just hit YES on all the questions and not do the audit, but I really want to do it, I am just not sure if I have learned enough to be able to complete this task…

I have another idea for a post but hopefully there will be an update on this before the end of the day!