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Looking to get into IT?

Here are some great reads, sources, and Youtube channels to follow if you are looking to get into IT or improve your career in IT.

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Must Read IT Books

- CompTIA A+ Exam Cram (Pearson)

- CompTIA Network+ Exam Cram (Pearson)

- CompTIA Security+ Study Guide (Sybex)

- CompTIA Linux+ All-In-One Exam Guide (Mc Graw Hill

- Beginner's Introduction To Privacy (Naomi Brockwell)

- Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons (Carey Parker)

- Extreme Privacy: What It Takes To Disappear (Michael Bazzell)

- OSINT Techniques: Resources For Uncovering Online Information (Michael Bazzell and Jason Edison)

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See photo for more good reads.

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Improve your interpersonal communication with these

- Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

(George J. Thompson Ph.D & Jerry B. Jenkins)

- Louder Than Words: Take your career from average to exceptional with the hidden power of nonverbal intelligence (Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins Ph.D)

- What Every Body Is Saying

(Joe Navarro & Marvin Karlins Ph.D)​​

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If you'd like to expand your knowledge on these topics then see photos for more good reads.

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Other Sources of Learning

- LinkedIn Learning

- ITPro TV

- TryHackMe

- Jamf

- Learning Tree International

- SkillSoft

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Youtube Channels

- TechLinked

- Jack Rhysider

- David Bombal​

- NetworkChuck

- Professor Messer

​​- John Hammond

​- Seytonic

​- Surveillance Report

- NBTV

- Techlore

​- All Things Secured​

- Kevtech IT Support​​​​​

​- Marcus Hutchins

- The Linux Experiment 

- 3mdeb

- Cyberkraft

- IFixIT

​- Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons

- Black Hills Information Security

- Chrome for developers

​- Jamf training support

- The PC Security Channel

​​- Linus Tech Tips

- Marques Brownlee

​- Hak5​

​- Louis Rossmann

- IT Career Questions​

- IT Security Labs​

​- Mental Outlaw

- The Helpful Hacker

- Liron Segev

- Ken Harris

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What is in my IT bag

What is in my pen test bag (demonstrative only)

- Moody Tools strip screw extractor kit

- iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit

- XPOWER Electric Duster

- 2x 128 gb USB

- 4x 32 gb USB

- 2x StarTech M.2 NVME enclosure

- 2x StarTech 2.5 SATA enclosure

- USB to Type-C converter

- Elegiant wire tracker and network cable tester

- Network tool kits professional - Network cable maintenance kit

- Allen key set

- 2x battery packs

- 2x of HDMI to HDMI cables

- 2x of DP to DP cables

- 2x of type c to type c display cables

- Soldering Iron Kit

& way more

- Hak5 Wifi Pineapple Mark VII

- Hak5 O.MK7AC Wifi Adapter

- Hak5 USB Rubber ducky

- Hak5 Bash Bunny

- Hak5 Shark Jack

- Hak5 Plunder Bug LAN Tap

- Hak5 Screen Crab

- Hak5 Key Croc

- Hak5 LAN Turtle

- Hak5 Packet Squirrel Marc II

- O.MG Cable (c to c)

- O.MG Programmer 

- USB Data Blocker

- Flipper Zero

- 72 GB Digital Voice Recorder

- 64 GB Digital Voice Recorder Pen

& some more

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