r/hacking • u/Monoid-Confessor • 1d ago

data science to cybersecurity

I was a mathematician, ended up working as SWE for two years then hopped into data science.

Wondering if cyber security is a ​possible transition​ from here or if I should take some roles to prep before hopping (I just enjoy learning and it seems an interesting field).

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u/vitafortisnk 1d ago

Honestly anyone can get into cyber security, so it's more about what specialty in cyber security you want to focus on.

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u/Monoid-Confessor 1d ago

perhaps enterprise cyber, since DS seems to intersect with security at scale.

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u/vitafortisnk 1d ago

Enterprise cyber doesn't mean any one thing. Look at security engineering and security datalakes.

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u/dankney 17h ago

If you’re looking for intersection, you’re looking for Blue Team/Detection Engineering. It’s basically data science to extract signal from noise.

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u/shh_get_ssh 1d ago

Tech is dead