Pawg (FBA) Is Cyber security oversaturated?

[7th Letter Specialist]

Our first customer.

Laughing at the goofies flooding in here looking for pawgs or rage bait

I don’t fw no damn pawgs goofy ass nïgga. Thread title was full of stupid ass mishmash

 

[BlackJesus]

Me seeing PAWG in the title

Don’t ever play me like that again

I don’t fw no damn pawgs goofy ass nïgga. Thread title of stupids ass mosh mash

He obviously did it for attention dumbass. Knowing dummies will come flocking and run up his numbers to keep the thread going

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

He obviously did it for attention dumbass. Knowing dummies will come flocking and run up his numbers to keep the thread going

But yet here you are. Ad-libbing, rocking OP’s mic

 

[null]

I'm doing sec+ next spring .. to add to my programming skills

 

[ReggieFlare]

I can’t speak for Cybersecurity but I’m in software engineering. In general, technical work is being HEAVILY offshored right now and I don’t think it’s going to slow down anytime soon.

The tech market is becoming saturated and you’re gonna be competing in a global market to attain jobs against people who have way more knowledge and experience than you, some of which will do your job at a quarter of your price. I’m not saying don’t go for it but realize you are fighting a very uphill battle as someone with no experience in the industry.

One of the brehs in the thread mentioned it, your best bet is to look at companies/industries which are too risky to offshore or get security clearance and target government jobs.

 

[CrushedGroove]

Specialize in an area of security. There's Security Engineering, Risk Analysis based Information Security, Pen testing, Vulnerability Scanning and Analysis, Compliance, Identity Management, etc, etc.

 

[BlackJesus]

But yet here you are. Ad-libbing, rocking OP’s mic

We are all just players in his game at this point. Embrace it

 

[xXMASHERXx]

I saw the thread in 6 cert and forgot to post my response but most people already said what I was going to say anyways. Since you don't have a passion for it, I would recommend going to ML/AI route instead. Being in Cybersecurity is very soul crushing most days. It sucks knowing that something could have been mitigated or prevented but wasn't due to lack of care/support from the C-Suite.

 

[RealCrownHeights]

I saw the thread in 6 cert and forgot to post my response but most people already said what I was going to say anyways. Since you don't have a passion for it, I would recommend going to ML/AI route instead. Being in Cybersecurity is very soul crushing most days. It sucks knowing that something could have been mitigated or prevented but wasn't due to lack of care/support from the C-Suite.

What would be the process like for going into ML/AI? Is it still a certification and homelab type of ordeal if I have no experience?

 

[Taharqa]

I'm a security engineer

Most of the security vendors we utilize for our solutions we manage(barracuda, fortinet, as examples) are off shored. Not only that, but these off shore guys are somehow making the customer facing side of things worse.

I got lazy recently and used fortinet to convert a firewall configuration and it came back in a foreign language. Do with that information as you will.

 

[Lord_nikon]

 

[JT-Money]

That's why you gotta show these companies zero loyalty. And get as much money out of them as you can.

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO​

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of 'red team,' under new CTO | TechCrunch

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the last year.

techcrunch.com

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.
Overall, the company has laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50 people from a total of 200 employees in the cybersecurity team since the start of 2024, according to multiple current and former Yahoo employees who spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity. (Yahoo is TechCrunch’s parent company.)

 

[xXMASHERXx]

That's why you gotta show these companies zero loyalty. And get as much money out of them as you can.

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO​

Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of 'red team,' under new CTO | TechCrunch

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the last year.

techcrunch.com

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team — known as The Paranoids — over the last year, TechCrunch has learned.
Overall, the company has laid off or lost through attrition 40 to 50 people from a total of 200 employees in the cybersecurity team since the start of 2024, according to multiple current and former Yahoo employees who spoke to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity. (Yahoo is TechCrunch’s parent company.)

Yep. Being loyal to a company is foolish. I've seen whole teams of people get laid off because of poor decisions made by people at the top. It's crazy how leadership can come in, make terrible decisions, and then the people under them are the ones who suffer. I can't wait to hear about Yahoo suffering an attack or breach in 2025.

 

[RamsayBolton]

you have to pay for certs and training to actually have a shot in this field? one of my friends is looking into it and its got me curious now since AI starting to threaten my main job.

but ive heard that some of the stuff you pay for is kind of bogus, and others have a good rep

 

[L&HH]

Maybe grc and non technical roles.

But if you know your way around Palo Alto networks (firewall, global protect vpn), splunk , crowdstrike, qualys, tenable, etc no.


We struggled to hire a senior security engineer for a year now. We finally hired a guy and he left after 2 weeks (he got another job). Dude had like 3 jobs and we wouldn’t allow him to be remote so he found someone that would.