How do you get a network security position, if you have no experience? I mean I could go buy but a PIX firewall and I am going to get the CCNA soon plus I have a degree. But I dont think any of that will matter to an employer due to how sensitve security is. So how do you get in? Is it simply you have to know someone? Or the whole..”Hey let the Database Administrator be the security guy, he knows computer stuff right?” Then he goes out buys a few books and wings doing security for his company. So how do you get in? If one has all the education, say I get a Network+ cert or something like that. But I am not seeing any opportunities like that on Dice or whatever. If I mastered firewall technology and could prove it to an employer, what chances might I have of getting a entry level security position? If entry level even exists in that industry.