This is a reminder I get every day when I interact with people from the cybersecurity fraternity, most of whom say that they landed a career in cybersecurity purely by chance.
I recently made a LinkedIn post asking people to share their stories about how they happened to become cybersecurity professionals. The responses that followed validated the same sentiment mentioned above—a career in cybersecurity is more of a chance than a choice.
People study physics, programming, or become experts in Minecraft before they decide to give cybersecurity a serious thought.
This zeitgeist of accidentally discovering cybersecurity as a career option means that most people don’t consider a cybersecurity job as a viable career choice. And even if they do, it’s only after they cautiously dip their toes in the domain due to some cosmic coincidence.
Honestly, I’m cut from the same cloth. I began my career in cyber as a “curious hacker” in 1994. Back then, the chances of making a career in cybersecurity were either unheard of or very slim.
But I was very fortunate to get my first job as a network and security engineer at AT&T Corp in 1998. As a dreamy-eyed hacker who spent his time tinkering with dial-up connections, I was psyched to take up a job that paid well and allowed me to do what I loved the most.
Twenty-two years later, I’m still very thankful for that serendipitous entry into cybersecurity.
But things have changed and cybersecurity has become an integral part of business operations in today’s hyper- ..
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