The Skills Needed for Cybersecurity

A career as a software developer can be very exciting – from building apps that your friends and family use daily to developing systems that run devices and control networks. While this is a great career path, did you know that all the experience you have in software development can smoothly transition you into a cybersecurity career?

If you currently work in networking, software development, systems engineering, financial and risk analysis or security intelligence, you’re in luck because CyberSeek has outlined cybersecurity career pathways that begin with these roles, called feeder roles. They have skills that overlap with those needed by cybersecurity pros.

This article is the second in a series that details the cybersecurity career pathway that starts with each of these roles and will focus on how to get into cybersecurity from feeder roles such as software development.
Learn About the Other CyberSeek Pathways and Feeder Roles
Systems Engineer
Financial and Risk Analysis
Computer Networking
Security Intelligence

With the unprecedented measures taken in response to the global pandemic, various IT sectors are already seeing issues in cybersecurity and data protection—from companies scrambling to get remote work up and functioning safely to data breaches and business email compromises. On the Layers with the IT Security Community podcast, Philip Burnett and Charles Hughes of Hire Wire Networks talk about what IT companies and individuals can do to mitigate potential blind spots in uncertain times.“As with any disaster recovery, you first have to find out what is essential to your business that you have to protect. There’s a lot of control mechanisms, protection, monitoring, alerting. You also need to make sure people can do their jobs comfortably and securely. Remote access is a huge issue. Looking at VPN and secure access are vital.”

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