CYBERSECURITY JOB HUNTING GUIDE
career options
Author: Stefan Waldvogel
Learn more about different Cybersecurity careers.
Many people know two Cybersecurity jobs: Penetration testing and SOC Analyst. Most jobs are not in these two fields.
Cybersecurity has at least four areas:
All of these jobs have sub-areas and sub-teams. If you work in Cybersecurity, you can work in any of these fields/teams. Try to be open-minded, and you get more likely a job because you apply for less-known jobs with less competition.
This articles only gives you a brief overview. If you find a topic/field interesting, research more about it.
- Governance Risk & Compliance
- Product Security
- Security Operations
- Security Engineering Architecture & Test
Ideas: Wild West Hackin’ Cast: How to Hire Cybersecurity/InfoSec Professionals Who Get Things Done w/ Kip Boyle
Cybersecurity has at least four areas:
- Governance Risk & Compliance
- Product Security
- Security Operations
- Security Engineering Architecture
All of these jobs have sub-areas and sub-teams. If you work in Cybersecurity, you can work in any of these fields/teams. Try to be open-minded, and you get more likely a job because you apply for less-known jobs with less competition.
This articles only gives you a brief overview. If you find a topic/field interesting, research more about it.
- Governance Risk & Compliance
- Governance (Project Management, Policy, Reporting)
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Training and Awareness (SAT)
- Product Security
- Product Security (Product and Device, Product TPRM)
- Product Services Security (Production Web Services, Production Network Security)
- Security Operations
- Security Operations (SOC, CIRT, Digital Forensics)
- Security Tools
- Lights On Operations (Firewalls, Network, Shared Security Services)
- Security Engineering Architecture & Test
- Security Strategy Architecture
- Solution Engineering
- Vulnerability Management (Scanning)
- Application Security
- Security Testing (Security Test Team, Bug Bounty, Pen Test)
- Threat Intelligence (Threat Hunting)
Ideas: Wild West Hackin’ Cast: How to Hire Cybersecurity/InfoSec Professionals Who Get Things Done w/ Kip Boyle
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