I am currently a web based software developer. I have always been interested in gaining some cybersecurity skills. I have plans to subscribe to cybrary for a year, but I need a pathway, and someone to guide me through this new career journey.
CIP membership comes with access to the Cybrary Discord. There are mentors there who can help point you in the right direction and answer questions. There is not 1-to-1 mentoring per se, but the more you engage and the more specific your goals, the more a mentor can help guide you.
As you are looking to build a foundation in Cybersecurity, I would recommend the following resources:
This book covers different types of attacks, common tactics used by online adversaries, and defensive strategies you can use to protect yourself. You’ll learn what security professionals do, what an attack looks like from a cybercriminal’s viewpoint, and how to implement sophisticated cybersecurity measures on your own devices.
This book teaches why and how to use fundamental open source and free tools such as ping, tracert, PuTTY, pathping, sysinternals, NMAP, OpenVAS, Nexpose Community, OSSEC, Hamachi, InSSIDer, Nexpose Community, Wireshark, Solarwinds Kiwi Syslog Server, Metasploit, Burp, Clonezilla and many more.
I also highly reccomend building up your Linux-Fu with these challenges: OverTheWire Bandit (free): OverTheWire: Bandit