I'm looking at the Charles Sturt graduate certificate in Cyber Security and/or cloud computing and visualisation. I can get accepted due to having a bachelors (not IT related) but was wondering if they are worth doing with no IT background.
Thanks
Edit: what if I also got into the ADF cyber gap program?
Goal: Just to get a WFH job that's pays alright
Age: 25
Qualifications: Math's degree
Experience: Nothing in IT, teaching/taught for a couple of years
Cyber is obviously in demand. If you have skills from the maths degree in stats, that will be helpful.
Would be a very dull job if you aren’t intrinsically interested in ICT in my opinion.
I’d say a cert like this, and maths degree would make you employable, but it is a very “learning yourself, all the time” type of job. So whether you progressed and did well depends on everything after day one of a new job.
It’s going to be difficult to be successful if you just want a job, and don’t much care what it is.
To see whether the material will interest you, maybe read some This Week in Security “ columns - they are a general reader level jumping off point:
https://hackaday.com/2022/10/21/this-week-in-security-linux-…
But be warned you will likely spend a lot of time; answering ISO27001 questionnaires, assessing OWASP principles, or worse, combing through log files.
Qualifications: Math's degree
A lot of good software engineers have either math or engineering ( non IT ) background.
Goal: Just to get a WFH job that's pays alright
Software engineer has the highest probability for WFH.
Salary ceiling is in magnitude higher than cyber sec/cloud computing.
Cyber / Cloud might be the buzz right now but they will plateu and transform into something more specific or something else entirely.
transform into something more specific or something else entirely.
any example for this scenario?
@[Deactivated]: "System Administrator" used to be popular but now it becomes more specific.
Sys admin is a combination of Cyber security engineer, Platform Engineer, Deployment Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer , Network engineer, Storage Engineer and sometime help desk rolled into one.
Junior developer (or people that can't really write code) morphed into SalesForce/ServiceNow developer :D
cloud computing and visualisation
Is this where you spend money and get high?
If it was, sign me up
I would caution that those certs may not be worth much by the time you get to a position where you would be a serious contender for those sorts of roles.
Fair call, thanks. That's one of my main concerns and I don't want a 60k masters.
I did the grad cert with CSU. Although it is technically run by IT Masters. I have got a bit of work out of it but with no real IT experience it is impossible to find a role. I work in Education Technology so the CS qual is kinda useful, especially architecting cloud solutions. However, beyond that… Not really.
This aside, the course wasn't great quality either. It was mediocre at best. I got it through the COVID discount but would never have felt good about paying full price for it. If you can do the ITM short courses to get the credit for a unit. It saves a bit of money.
I see, thank you. Is education technology a good role?
What is your goal? Age, other qualifications, experience, interests?