Reskilling yourself in such a fast moving industry

[LondonManc]

What is the cyber security arena like?

Which part? Pen testing, ethical hacking? Or the dark side?

[DanielSQL]

Which part? Pen testing, ethical hacking? Or the dark side?

The whole lot.

I presume the demand for internet security experts is rather high these days.

[Bee]

What is the cyber security arena like?

I have an impression that is a very interesting and a promising area, unfortunately is not my area.
A good certification in Cyber Security could be good start.

[Bee]

Which part? Pen testing, ethical hacking? Or the dark side?

Don't complicate the life of the newbie.

[northernladuk]

Don't complicate the life of the newbie.

You mean like giving them a view and advice when you don't know?

That said I make a living out of that

[pauldee]

I think security is the only guaranteed growth industry. Don't tell anyone but it's actually easy: It's just basically the equivalent of fitting window locks and an alarm on your house, then waiting for the bad guys to go down the road where they haven't bothered fitting them

[Bee]

I think security is the only guaranteed growth industry. Don't tell anyone but it's actually easy: It's just basically the equivalent of fitting window locks and an alarm on your house, then waiting for the bad guys to go down the road where they haven't bothered fitting them

No need of tech for that, with 2 German Shepherds your option is obsolete.

[LondonManc]

The whole lot.

I presume the demand for internet security experts is rather high these days.

It depends what interests you - for example, there are companies that are paid to carry out penetration testing for example; that is, say a retailer creates a Christmas microsite, they'll pay a company to try and hack them and give them a report of any vulnerabilities.

[darrylmg]

Pay for Computer Weekly ... never! I always had a free subscription. All worked well till the internet took over. I used to read it, but once I progressed in the industry realised that they were full of tulip, the only reason to have it was for the classified Job ads in the back. You can still read it on-line if you like to fill you mind with 100% rubbish. CW jobs is the lineage for the job.

BTW: AS/400's latest name is i-Series / Series-i. Still in use in all the Top Investment banks for clearing. So some mileage left in that skill ...

I got into Borland Delphi just because PC-Plus magazine gave away a free copy of Delphi 3.
It wasn't for a career, back then it was just fun. So many software tools hadn't yet been written that you would decide to write your own.
These days you just google it and you a dozen on cnet. The only problem is working out which ones are not going to do evil things on your systems.

Hence, I believe a re-skilling in either security architecture, secure programming methodologies or other security focused skills will be the best option for me for the next 10 years.
I like the sound of a 5 day ethical hacking course, just from a raw interest in IT perspective.
I have not yet investigated how lucrative contracting is in those areas.

[fool]

So you mean homogeneous?

Actually, drop the non-. Things that are different is a problem and thats why things like docker are popular, it gives you a standard format to host whilst inside the abstraction you can be doing anything you want.

Of course some smart arse will note we've just moved the problem and thus declare what we've did is pointless whilst others will assume the complexity has dissappeared. Neither are particularly useful and both fall into my previous sterotypes.