Yep. I had a chance to go for a cybersecurity degree. And every time ive looked at that, the career path is basically an applied insurance job.

Cybersecurity does not make money. They do not raise the profit for a company. Instead, they are compliance, contractual, and legal defences to repel lawsuits and keep data boundaries clean.

And who's the first to go? Groups that dont make money. Like cybersec.

Cybersecurity certainly makes money. The good ones make a lot. I mean a lot.

But if you think you can just study for a year and get some security certificates and call it a day, you're going to be sorely disappointed in the compensation.

This is true at companies that treat security as a checkbox driven by compliance.

Not true at top-tier tech companies building software in product categories that by their nature have very high security requirements, like Fintech (e.g. Coinbase, Mercury bank, Wise).