Navigating Cybersecurity Certifications

Helen Patton
6 min readNov 25, 2023

It Ain’t Easy…

I have the privilege of talking to a lot of people trying to become a cybersecurity professional. They ALWAYS have questions about certifications: Are they worth it? Which one(s) should I pursue? Which ones would get me a job? How should I get it? I talked about it in my book “Navigating the Cybersecurity Career Path”, but this topic keeps coming up, so here are my thoughts.

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Helen Patton

Cyber Security, Technology Ethics, and Humanity. What else? I can be found at CISOHelen.com or on Twitter @CisoHelen or on Mastodon @cisohelen@infosec.exchange