How do I become a CISO?

May 2021 2 22 Report

How do I become a CISO?

I'm 15 and I want to become a CISO.

What Majors should I take in college?

What colleges are the best to go to for this job?

How can I prepare for this job now?

This is what I want to do and I want to know how I can be the best at it. I've looked around Google and it doesn't tell me what I need to know.

If anyone could answer my questions, I would be extremely appreciative.

~Alec

Update:

A CISO is a Chief Information Security Officer.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Information_Sec...

Do you think you could supply the a link to maybe a website that I could get me involved with Cisco networking certifications,certification by comptia which is the security+. I'mgig to take some proramming classes in Highschool. Who knows maybe we will cross paths. I plan to earn a certification in Ethical Hacking, that way I can exploit holes and easy ways for hackers to hack into the companies I work for.

Computers & Internet / Security

Anonymous

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ahhh such enthusiasm! (I'm assuming this is internet/computer/network security). You sound like me 2 years ago. (I'm 17 now). I wanted to be that, and I still do. I love security.

Right now I am doing My Cisco networking certifications, this I believe helps a lot! It teach's you how computers transfer data and how the internet works! Next I am going to study programming, this is pretty essential programming applications and being able to look for bugs and exploitable holes in programs (so you can fix them). I am also studying a certification by comptia which is the security+

4 year bachelors degree is really recommended this will really help you later in life. No technical school stuff!

I am going to do Information and systems technology.

This is the study of basically servers and all that.

So that's

Cisco certified network associate

Comptia security +

4 year bachelors degree in information systems technology

programming language.

With all this you will be pretty well rounded.

Cisco teachs the network part and how it works.

After that the security+ teachs you how firewalls work, IPS, IDS, and all kinds of different hacker attacks like cold boots, buffer overflow, port scans, spoofing, DDos and viruses.

Programming helps with programs and fixing exploits in your software so they can not be used as back doors, and reverse engineering viruses.

The knowledge on server side activity and how servers handle the data, along with encryption.

I hope this helps!