#RSAC: 10 Reasons Why a Cybersecurity Career is Beneficial to Personal and Professional Development

While there is increased stress in cybersecurity and “good days and bad days,” we should also focus on the “tremendous positives” in the industry’s achievements.

Speaking at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) summit at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Phil Venables, board director and senior advisor for risk and cybersecurity at Goldman Sachs Bank, said that despite the challenges, there are 10 reasons to want to stay in the cybersecurity industry:

You get to be involved in pretty much every part of everything your organization does with natural focus on the customer
You need a range of skills not always found in other roles – which are individually portable and collectively indispensable
You get to take both broad and deep tech and business perspectives and rapidly learn the interplay between them – up and down the organization
You get earlier career exposure to senior people, inside and outside, and you become ultimately entwined with the core processes of your organization
You learn how to spot the failure modes of anything
You have fascinating and quickly evolving adversaries and, as a result, you are constantly learning and developing
You have amazing personal resilience, and an innate long-term optimism that things will keep getting better, perhaps because of your implicit short-term pessimism
You have a higher purpose. You are defending the flow of ideas/innovation that are essential to human progress – adding value to society – protecting people’s information and livelihoods (and sometimes lives)
You are usually good with incremental approaches, handling complexity and taking a systems-wide view
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