Answering the age old question, “what certification or training should I take?”

For “what you need”, just look at job reqs for jobs you are interested in and get one of the ones you see commonly listed. For “learning”, I like to offer this counter as advice. That said, it’s not like you can’t learn from taking certification training courses, so focus on some that are more practical. OffSec has traditionally been good, though they’re known for being challenging and their reputation has started to tilt a bit after the acquisition. SANS is pretty good, but VERY expensive. If you want to learn basic stuff, go pick up a book or something. But when you have an idea of what niche you might be interested in breaking into, let us know so we can give more specific examples. Good luck!

Oh, and I have a bunch of reviews of certs I’ve done in the past here if you’re interested in perusing…