What is the minimum level of knowledge required to start working as an information security analyst?

Question

Information Security

Hi all.
Thanks in advance to everyone who cares for your replies and comments.

To the point.
I decided to change jobs during the year (just have time to learn), I liked the field of information security.
I have a secondary special education (technician in computer systems).
I have experience in supporting a provider (I understand how networks work at a basic level, I passed certification in free D-link courses)
Are there any chances to get a job in this direction? What prospects are open at all?
I would like to pick up something where it will be quite interesting and part-time will pay decently.
Where to get knowledge? What exactly to learn/read? What do they ask in an interview?

Thank you all again.

Answer 1

Every third student wants to go to IS (someone told them that it's cool), and the whole country needs 1,000 specialists (of which 800 are in the capital, of course). Information security - in large business, not even on average (with rare exceptions), people from the outside are not taken. And people with a secondary special are not taken, even if they are not from the outside.
(slightly exaggerated for clarity)

Answer 2

then you have a picture
for money on a white horse better than other programmer ways, no one needs a June in IS, so you may not get to earning money,
but if you really want to - Kali linux and go: read, do, comprehend - the topics will come up by themselves
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Answer 3

Knowledge to take in the university. The first is ICSI. Well, or, as an option, MEPhI.
And without a serious crust, they won’t even invite you for an interview.

Answer 4

Practice is needed, no one needs knowledge in information security, as in any IT field, google the companies that do this, there are a lot of articles on Habré where they are PR and study what exactly they do and try to repeat.