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A career is a chosen occupation or profession, which is undertaken for a longer period of a person’s life.

A career is a chosen occupation or profession, which is undertaken for a longer period of a person’s life. For "having a job" to be a career, the job has to come with opportunities for progress.

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Freelance security work

What types of jobs within IT security lend themselves best to freelancing or working remotely, as opposed to being a standard office job?
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What does working in cybersecurity look like?

I am thinking of working in cybersecurity since a while now (I am doing a bachelor degree in computer science and I have one in mathematics). However, I don't know what it really looks like. And before considering what kind of future studies I…
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How do security professionals measure their success?

How do security professionals measure their success and how do they communicate this to others in their organizations? The way I see it, if no security incidents occur then either the security team is doing a good job, there was no threat to begin…
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confused: computer security & software development career tracks

I'm a recent computer science graduate. I like computer security and want to be a security architect. I googled it and saw that the start point is to be a system administrator, but system administration is not my dream job; I especially love to…
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What cybersecurity jobs are mostly technical?

I am doing my bachelor's in computer science and I have the chance to take multiple cybersecurity courses. Of course, before taking these course, I did some research about jobs in the field of cybersecurity to see what one does in day-to-day tasks,…
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IT Security Learning Path

Possible Duplicate: What are the career paths in the computer security field? I am a software developer. Currently I am interested in IT security, but I have difficulties about learning pathways to IT security. Is there a learning path for IT…
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Cyber security specialist vs. consultant vs. architect

I have a general understand of these 3 roles, but no working experience (actually I work in security R&D). For example (I know some details may vary in different companies): [Specialist] - design solution /implement security programs for own…
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GSEC Certification clarificationadvice?

Apologies if my questions seem a little basic or not meant for a technical forum (Unsure where to post a career related question). I am looking into doing courses and certifications with the aim of becoming certified for penetration testing with a…
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SysAdmin to InfoSec

I'm a *nix sysAdmin for last 5 years. For last one year I've been engaged with PCI-DSS and SAS70 audits at our company and got introduced with Information Security. I have found my interest in InfoSec and reviewing the possibilities on career switch…
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I want a full time career in the field of security. The following is my plan. Any suggestions or modifications?

Currently, I have two years of experience in the field of IT and IT security. The type of work isn't what I expected when I was a student. Since then, I've asked people who work in this field, who suggested me to get certified. So, I started…
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Career advice - Is it possible to get a security job without formal education? What can compensate for the lack of it?

Context: I am twenty and I am a high school dropout. I have a basic working knowledge of software development, penetration testing, vulnerability research, reverse engineering and exploit development. I also have one year of experience as an…
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How do you trust your developer to be competent security wise?

Let's say that you want to hire a developer to deal with a part of a project in which you don't have any expertise. How can you have confidence that he knows what he's doing since you have no idea what he's doing? I know that the question might be…
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How to show your work to potential clients as a pentester?

While freelance software developers can show their work to potential clients by building personal projects or by showing their previous client's project how can a pentester do the same? A pentester can't provide audit reports of previous clients as…
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Late to becoming interested in career in information security. How much disadvantaged am I against those talented people since young?

relatively new to stack exchange and I was about 1 year in my career as a Network Security Engineer before I am needed now by the same company as a Special Projects Engineer to help a department set-up a software they procured which rely on SQL…
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Prevalence of offshoring in the Information Security Industry?

After having been a regular code monkey in the US for 6 years now with readily offshoreable skills, I feel like I am fighting an uphill battle against third world wages. While I am not prepared for a drastic career change that will be completely…
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