The Cybersecurity Industry Is Hiring, But Young People Aren't Interested

Daniel_Stuckey writes "Cybersecurity, as an industry, is booming. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs as network systems and information security professionals are expected to grow by 53 percent through 2018. Yet, young people today aren't interested in getting jobs in cybersecurity. By all accounts it's a growing and potentially secure, lucrative job. But according to a new survey by the defense tech company Raytheon, only 24 percent of millennials have any interest in cybersecurity as a career."

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Re:Not just security

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If you're really taking 3-6 months to be useful, you're incompetent. There hasn't been a job I started in the last decade where I wasn't fixing bugs by the end of week one. (I had a joke at my last job that my first day I fixed 2 bugs with 0 lines of code- one was fixed by adding a line, one was fixed by deleting a line). Now if there's a large existing codebase it may take months to know all the ins and outs, but you should be contributing within a week.

Fresh college grads are an exception here- they need more handholding. But even with them if you give them the correct jobs you can start getting something useful out of them by the end of week 2. They'll just take longer to hit their real peak performance.

DevOps rarely means a build only guy- those are called build engineers. Generally they mean a developer with sysadmin experience (possibly a sysadmin who wants to transition) or a developer with experience dealing with configuration of servers/services- the guy who'd be configuring Apache, keeping your DB running, etc. He might be asked to set up the build system, but that wouldn't be his primary job.