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Re: Do you need a degree for working in cybersecurity?
Pentesting is one of the InfoSec fields where you are often looked down upon by other pentesters if you have degrees or certs. You find a lot of very smart, creative, and obsessive people who can't hack academics being attracted to pentesting and forming mainstream-education-hating cliques. You see these people en masse at… -
Re: Do you need a degree for working in cybersecurity?
You can generally get by in Cybersecurity and IT without a degree up until you're about to hit management. And by "get by", I mean spend a few years working your way up the food chain. That said, a lot of people usually get into Cybersecurity after some time in IT. I've heard of people going straight into it by utilizing… -
Re: Do you need a degree for working in cybersecurity?
Second what TechGromit said. I am a hiring manager, and have hired plenty of Analysts, admins and recent a penetration tester. The pentester did have a degree, but that wasn't the reason he got the job, it was his OSCP, and active research and extra-curricular training. Most of the Analysts I've hired had degrees, but then… -
Re: Do you need a degree for working in cybersecurity?
We just hired a new pentester for less than $40,000 with certs and education. This person gets to push prewritten scripts all day. Hardly exciting work. As for the degree and Information Security, cyber being but a small part of security as a whole. You will spend more and more time doing research, writing papers,…
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