I’m currently in my final year of CS and I’m planning to move into cybersecurity, particularly SOC Analyst / Blue Team, and potentially DevSecOps later.
I’m currently learning networking and came across Cisco’s free Networking fundamental course. It covers things like OSI, TCP/IP, IP addressing, DNS, DHCP, basic networking, etc.
For someone starting from the fundamentals, is this course good enough to build the networking foundation needed for SOC/Blue Team or DevSecOps, or should I learn something else alongside it?
I’m not trying to become a network engineer or prepare for CCNA right now. I mainly want to know how much networking I actually need for a cybersecurity career and what I should practice after completing the course.
Would appreciate advice from people currently working in SOC, Blue Team, DevSecOps, or cybersecurity in general.
Thanks!
Source: r/Cybersecurity101 · by /u/Acceptable_Rest_1893