Why I Became a Security Engineer 🔐 as An Aspiring Software Engineer 💻
Cybersecurity has quickly became one of fastest growing industries 📈, offering benefits such as: competitive pay, remote work opportunities, diverse career paths and excellent job security.
“Cybersecurity Ventures’ prediction that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cybersecurity jobs globally by 2021, up from one million positions in 2014. Despite industry-wide efforts to reduce the skills gap, the prediction has come true and the world’s open cybersecurity positions in 2021 is enough to fill 50 NFL stadiums” (Morgan).
You often hear people attempt to break into cybersecurity (and tech in general) but struggle. The rising cost of college plays a role but large applicant pools and rigorous interviews have been gatekeepers for years.
1. My Journey Into Cybersecurity Was Happenstance 🎲
Despite this, I switched internally at Amazon from security engineer to software engineer after one year. Why? Well, my goal wasn’t to become a security engineer. My journey into cybersecurity was a dice roll. I majored in computer science and aspired to become a software engineer after loving coding my first semester. As a backup for no internship sophomore summer, I applied to a research program called Research Experience for…
