Cybersecurity is not full
I just read one blog post where the author talking about that the field in cybersecurity (cs)is full. I don’t think so! Go ahead and make own your point. https://cyberisfull.com/category/cybersecurity.html
At first, I agree there are many companies who tells you don’t need prior education to become a cs specialists. And they doing it because it something that can sell to you, and now it is lucrative. Yes become hacker (as you see in movies) is … “sexy” (?) job.
I don’t think to start with CS without prior education or experiences from other IT positions like tech support or network administration is totally impossible, but it will be very very very hard.
What do you think you want to do when you don’t understand how to configure router and why IP address looks how it looks and why the gateway has address which it has? Or you do not understand differences between symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption or how work HTTPS?
Knowledge like this can be very helpful to identify and mitigate risks. You can not simply identify something that you don’t understand to. And i don’t talking about protecting against them or recovering from them.
I think there is a lot more than only take 6 week course and become a professional. I think it take years to become good and you need to study your whole career to keep with still evolving technologies, new threats and new attacker’s strategies.
I’m in IT few years now, i changed few positions from tech support to systems and network administering. I also understand how programing languages works and know some past beginner level like C# or Java and can write simple programs in many others. I was still into IT and new technologies as far as I’m remember and like to explore it and learning new things. And even if cybersecurity looks to me as next logical step in my career I still think it my knowledge and experiences is not enough and there is a lot front of me that i have to learn.
I don’t think cybersecurity does not have entry-level jobs, i think that better is to say cybersecurity is not very entry-level friendly.
What to say at the end? Knowledge and prior experiences from other IT positions can be very helpful in CS fields. But if you know you want work in cybersecurity field and you have no prior experiences, go for it. Really, try and you will see but know that it will be a lot of work and not few weeks or months but many years to become good at it, and then continual learning trough all your career.
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