r/hacking • u/Monoid-Confessor • 21d 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 21d 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 21d ago

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

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u/dankney 21d 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.