Month: September 2026

How Do You Get Cybersecurity Experience When Every Job Wants Experience?

One of the most frustrating things about trying to enter cybersecurity is opening an “entry-level” job posting and discovering that it wants: Two or three years of experience Several certifications Experience with half a dozen tools Cloud knowledge Scripting ability Incident response experience And apparently the ability to bend time That last one is only…

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There Is No Perfect Path Into Cybersecurity

A lot of people interested in cybersecurity seem to believe there is a correct sequence they are supposed to follow. Get this degree. Earn these certifications. Take this entry-level job. Spend exactly this many years doing that. Then, somehow, cybersecurity happens. That is certainly one way to get there. It is not the only way….

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Cybersecurity Career Paths: What the Jobs Actually Do

One of the first things people discover when they start looking at cybersecurity careers is that the word cybersecurity does not describe one job. Not even close. It describes a whole ecosystem of jobs, specialties, personalities, and skill sets. That matters because someone can look at one corner of cybersecurity, decide it looks painfully boring,…

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So You Want to Work in Cybersecurity? Start With What Hooks You

One of the questions cybersecurity professionals hear all the time is some variation of: “My kid wants to work in cybersecurity. Where should they start?” Or maybe it is a friend, nephew, coworker, neighbor, or somebody’s teenager who spends suspicious amounts of time taking computers apart. It sounds like an easy question. It is not….

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