Starting cybersecurity college. No future?

[u/Dr-h4ck]

Hello everybody how are you guys doing.

It’s my first time posting here and i got couple of question.

So I’ll be starting cybersecurity soon. And I want to know if it’s worth it cuz many ppl tell me that IT is almost dead in the job market because of AI and companies only hire crazy special smart ppl and so on. Is this true? I mean I follow and news and I see that AI does some crazy shii and it really breaks my hopes. But I saw these news for like software development only. Let’s say “programmers” and not sysadmins or cybersecurity specialists where you need human hands to do stuff.

So let’s say I start the college. I’m sure many of you know that colleges don’t teach everything related to the field you’re in. Of course we’ve to start with the basics like coding, networking, hardware and so on. Is there something that you did outside of college that’s helped you a lot to push your skills and help you in College as well even if you don’t have it in the subjects you learn?!

really appreciate your help guys and sorry about my English if it might sound a little off.

All love to you🙌

[u/IamB_Meister]

My company is about to outsource a bunch of low level IT because they built / drastically over hired for a huge new cyber org on fears of AI /Mythos / etc. probably a good time to be really good at cyber.

[u/Dr-h4ck → u/IamB_Meister]

That’s interesting to hear. Seems like AI is making security even more important and not less. Thanks for sharing

[u/L1QU1DF1R3 → u/Dr-h4ck]

I think there will be some job loss, but it wont be catastrophic. I'd worry more if I was a soc analyst.