Your Cybersecurity GRC Career Plan: How to Grow Faster

This video is a follow up to others on my channel about how to break into Cybersecurity Governance, Risk and Compliance, in more detail. I list ideas for steps that you can take, following Harvard’s recommended ratio to grow yourself faster of 70% experience, 20% Relationships and 10% Education. Also included are timeless lessons from the Fast and the Furious movies and other great resources listed below.
CHAPTERS
01:43 - The Growth Cycle
03:07 - Determine Your From/To
04:07 - Find Skills from Job Postings or Cyberseek
08:35 - Set Goals to Get Those Skills in Categories of Education, Experience and Relationships
REFERENCES
1. A Simple Way to Map out Your Career Ambitions, Harvard Business Review, hbr.org/2018/1...
2. The Fast and the Furious www.imdb.com/t...
3. 5 Step Process for Getting What You Want Out of Life, Ray Dalio: / raydalio
4. Your Cyber Path Mind Map, Kip Boyle: / 1236374733563650049
5. Cyberseek www.cyberseek....
6. Cyber Career Pathways Tool, NICCS, niccs.cisa.gov...
7. Darknet Diaries EP 60: DAWGYG: darknetdiaries...
8. My Career Crashed. My Story, David Bombal, • My career crashed! My ...
9. How Important is Your Future? What’s Stopping You? David Bombal, • How important is your ...
10. How to Initiate First Contact with a Mentor, Daniel Miessler, danielmiessler...
11. What Mentors With Their Mentees Knew, Harvard Business Review,hbr.org/2017/1...
12. Why Reverse Mentoring Works and How to do it Right, Harvard Business Review, hbr.org/2019/1...
13. IRRESISTIBLE: How to Land Your Dream Cybersecurity Position, www.udemy.com/...
14. Your Cyber Path Episode 79: • EP 79: Mid-Career Tra...
15. Simply Cyber GRC Master Class: simplycyber.te...
16. Security Creators, securitycreato...
17. NIST Cybersecurity Framework v1.1 download: www.nist.gov/c...
18. NIST SP 800-53A Rev. 5 Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations csrc.nist.gov/...
19. SOC2 Trust Services Criteria download: www.aicpa-cima...
20. CISA Secure Our World: www.cisa.gov/s...
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Views expressed are my own. Questions and feedback are welcome.

[@mansourjibrahim]

2024 I'm starting a new job in GRC.. Big career shift after years of support exp. I can't wait to start! The training program is immersive and I hope to become an expert in GRC.

[@cpatocybersecurity]

That’s awesome! Please let me know how it goes and I welcome any questions that come up as you dive in.

[@Salute_vet22]

Hi, do you know of a good template for a grc resume? I have 10 years of IT experience and the last 3 years has grc work mixed in. Hardly getting any calls.

[@cpatocybersecurity]

@@Salute_vet22 While I don't have a template on hand I think the guidance at 03:21 of this Your Cyber Path video is good for reflection and identifying areas of improvement: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGmmhqdonJWjrtk. For longer term I'll add GRC resumes to my video idea backlog.

[@SovReviews]

Were you previously in help desk support?

[@johnmcginnis1771]

This is solid gold content. Excellent

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Wow thanks so much!

[@OhhSwapy]

One of the best videos I’ve seen in Cybersecurity. Amazing work! Your content is top tier sir.

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Thanks so much! If there are any particular areas you'd like me to address in the future, just let me know.

[@nordythenorthman]

CPA is hard to get. You have to have 150 hours of college credit. Here in Texas, 30 hours must be upper level accounting and 24 hours must be business courses including an ethics and a research course. The CPA exam is no joke.

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Sometimes the most difficult things are the ones most worth doing!

[@CWhitlockGRC]

This is a great video! I really appreciate the time you put into this! Came back to watch it again and checkout your playlists. Now I have a "CPA to Cybersecurity" bookmark folder for all the videos I wanna catch up on!

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Awesome - thanks so much! If you have any questions about them please don’t hesitate to ask.

[@KrisND-jb3qk]

Great video, only recommendation is to place the GRC Master Class at the beginning of the video 😜

[@cpatocybersecurity]

LOL Great Feedback! It is excellent. Thanks!

[@Sci-Fi_Fan296]

This was so informative I plan to bookmark it and will subscribe to your channel for more information. Please keep up the good work.

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Thanks so much and please let me know if any particular topics are of interest and if you have any questions.

[@joshuakhan3409]

This is advice I need to hear as a graduate student. Thank you

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Thanks for watching and let me know if you have any questions while compiling your CDP

[@Cyber-Simples]

Such a useful and complete video! Thank you very much!

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Thanks for watching and the comment!

[@robertschmid3086]

do you know if they are many fully remote GRC jobs? Or have you found most positions are in office?

[@daniel_uba]

Thabk you so much for sharing Sir

[@cpatocybersecurity]

Thanks for watching and the comment! Let me know if any questions.

[@paulmeek537]

Hey there, I'm coming from a similar background. I've been working in accounting since 2008 but now transitioning to cyber security. I recently enrolled is a M.S Cyber security program. I think that's my best route to make the switch

[@cpatocybersecurity]

That’s awesome! Let me know if you have any questions along the way.