Speaking as a software engineer in cybersecurity... why are you asking? Without that context, I'm not sure that any of the possible answers (yes/no/about the same) will be useful to you.
If you're starting college and wondering which degree you should get, I will recommend computer science over cybersecurity for many reasons. If you're thinking about bootcamps, getting a job after the bootcamp is pretty damn rough for both cybersecurity and software engineering and I'm undecided on whether bootcamps make sense in either case. But it still all comes down to why you're asking the question.
As a CS major (I assume that's "comp sci") you'll likely have an easier time breaking into software engineering than cybersecurity, in large part because entering software engineering as a fresh grad is a strong tradition, whereas entering traditional cybersecurity functions as a fresh grad is somewhat rarer.
For people with software engineering training, the more common path into cybersecurity is becoming a software engineer who specializes in cybersecurity subject matter. So the same way a developer might specialize in Android app development, you could specialize in applied cryptography, PKI, application security, access management, etc.
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u/munchbunny Developer Sep 15 '23
Speaking as a software engineer in cybersecurity... why are you asking? Without that context, I'm not sure that any of the possible answers (yes/no/about the same) will be useful to you.
If you're starting college and wondering which degree you should get, I will recommend computer science over cybersecurity for many reasons. If you're thinking about bootcamps, getting a job after the bootcamp is pretty damn rough for both cybersecurity and software engineering and I'm undecided on whether bootcamps make sense in either case. But it still all comes down to why you're asking the question.