The FULL Cyber Roadmap — CV rules, interview answers, salary tables

No Degree? No Problem. — The FULL Cyber Security Career Roadmap

For everyone who's been told they need a degree, connections, or experience — I broke into cyber security with none of them, and this is the exact map.

My degrees are in games tech and marketing. I studied for my first certification between Amazon warehouse shifts, and six months after learning this industry existed, I signed my first cyber security role at £30k — a £9k rise on my old salary, into a career that pays £40k–£55k within a few years and £60k+ beyond. Today I'm an Information Security Analyst working real incidents with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender. This 30-page Full Edition is everything I did, everything I'd do differently, and every step laid out.

Inside the Full Edition:

• The complete 6-phase roadmap — foundations → ISC² CC → Security+ → hands-on skills → first role → levelling up (AZ-900, SC-200 and the specialisation map to £55k–£75k+ roles)
• My real story and timeline — warehouse shifts, the exam grind, 3 interviews, 2 offers
• The full job-hunt system — the CV rules that changed my response rate, the 8 job titles to set alerts for, UK salary tables so you never get lowballed, a worked STAR interview example, and the technical questions you WILL get asked
• The 2026 free training stack, verified — what each platform is actually for, the one sequence to follow, the real costs hiding behind "free" labels, and my honest verdict on the Google Cybersecurity Certificate
• The 6 mistakes I made — told honestly, so you skip the months they cost me
• Your first 6 months in a SOC — pass probation, beat imposter syndrome, become the junior every team wants
• The complete 90-day action plan with tickable checklists, plus a SOC vocabulary cheat sheet to revise before every interview

This isn't recycled Google advice — it's one person's genuine route in, updated for 2026 (including the end of the free ISC² CC programme that most guides still don't know about), and turned into a plan you can execute.

My promise: if this doesn't genuinely help you, message me and I'll refund you — no forms, no fuss. You're not risking £9.99. You're risking staying where you are.

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