2 The cybersecurity career landscape

This chapter covers

  • Various disciplines included in cybersecurity
  • Profiles of cybersecurity professionals across these disciplines
  • Characteristics of good cybersecurity professionals

In chapter 1, you began to explore just what cybersecurity is and why it even exists. Now it is time to dig a little deeper and explore the various career paths and disciplines that make up the modern day cybersecurity community.

You also saw in the first chapter how diversity is so important to our efforts to defend the digital way of life that we have come to rely on in society. As we now begin to explore the disciplines of cybersecurity, you will see just how diverse they can be as well.

2.1 The many disciplines of cybersecurity ...

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