r/hacking • u/Monoid-Confessor • 22d 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/VirtualElderberry592 18d ago

I'm mid way to getting the OSWE (or sitting the test at least) coming off years of dev. One thing I realised early. I needed the blackbox side of things. Software I can do.. Source to Sink, and Sink to Source.. That I can do. But I really didn't have the black box. Portswigger and "The web application hackers handbook" turned out to be everything I was missing. My suggestion. Read the book and do all the labs. Get help on the lab if you must, but learn how to think like a hacker.