I am a Cisco Certified Network Associate with skills and knowledge to work with a security operation team. i find this to be variable field of beginning a career in the exciting and growing field of cybersecurity operation. Networking is basically much more about moving bits, routing and switching. Today the few challenging trends i see for "us" NETWORKING PROFESSIONALS ARE: technology breadth and applications. We as Net-workers need to understand security, mobility, unified communications, as well as how the network adds value to applications like Oracle and SAP.