A career in cybersecurity - is it a good choice ? Discuss

A career in cybersecurity - is it a good choice ? Discuss

Answer me you fagets

If you're actually smart and have good social skills, then yes, infosec is a great career that you can make absolute bank off of.

Thanks man! There's an interesting IT cybersecurity conversion Master's at a very good uni in my city, and I have been thinking a lot about it. May I ask why social skills in particular?

Specifically for social engineering. A lot of entry points in cyber security come from the human element, so being able to interact, guide and manipulate people is key.

Don't listen to 95% of the time you need good social skills because a huge portion of working in infosec is communicating with clients and the end users. Whether that be project specifications, gathering information, or ATE, you need to be able to talk to people without spilling your spaghetti.

The only time you would ever need good social skills for social engineering is when doing a pentest, and even then, most pentest social engineering is done through emails.

>need good social skills to interact with people
No shit, you just described a basic requirement to 90% of the jobs out there and it doesn't even relate specifically to cyber security.
Disregard the social engineering aspect? If you think all social engineering is done through email, you're sorely mistaken and in some organisations this thought path would even consider you a liability.

>it doesn't even relate specifically to cyber security
You have to communicate with the end user more in infosec than any other field of information technology or computer science.

> If you think all social engineering is done through email
Except I didn't say that, you fuck. I said MOST. Do you really think that the majority of breaches happen because some sleezeball walks into the company headquarters and smooth talks the secretary? Obviously no. The majority of the time it's through email or other forms of digital communication.

Does cybersec even offer a good environment to work in?

From the outside it seems like there are 2 kinds of cybersec pros
1. Turbonerd permavirgin cyberpunk larpers who attend defcon and take hormone replacements
2. Corporate infosec wagecucks who wear uncomfortable shirts and work 16 hours a day under fluorescent lights

Yea, most turbonerds who attend the cons are complete larpers, but there is usually a few who are actually insanely smart. The smaller conferences like Bsides usually have fewer larpers and more professionals.

The best job environments are when you work for a security company that contracts out to other companies. Generally, this keeps your work new and interesting. Expect to travel if you're the guy that shows up on site to your clients to gather information or do pentests.

If you work as in an inhouse infosec specialist, yea you're gonna be fucked sitting under fluorescent lights all day.