Cybersecurity
Defensive security work — watching, investigating and responding. Most people arrive here from help desk or networking rather than straight off the street.
Realistic entry, but usually a second step rather than a first job.
Roles, easiest entry first
Application Security Engineer
You stop vulnerabilities from being written, rather than finding them after they ship.
No degree needed
Cloud Security Engineer
You make sure the cloud account nobody is watching is not the way in.
No degree needed
Digital Forensics & Incident Response
You work out what happened after a breach, in enough detail that it stands up later.
No degree needed
Governance, Risk & Compliance Analyst
You turn a security standard into things the organisation actually does, and prove it did them.
No degree needed
Identity & Access Engineer
You decide who can do what, and you make sure nobody quietly accumulates more than they need.
No degree needed
Penetration Tester
You are paid to break in, with permission and in writing, and then explain exactly how.
No degree needed
SOC Analyst
You watch the alerts, work out which ones matter, and investigate the ones that do.
No degree needed
Security Analyst
You work out what an attacker did, or is doing, and write it up so someone can act.
No degree needed
Only roles with a complete, verified route appear here. We would rather show you three real paths than sixty stubs.
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