I am interested in entering cybersecurity

Hi there. I'm 33, have been in IT for about 12 years now, and working towards finishing my best Bachelor of Science in Cybersecurity. I started out working the desktop support type jobs, worked my way into System Administration, which then led to an opening at my current employer as an IT Security Administrator. My company is a medium sized healthcare provider which wasn't too concerned with security or HIPAA until we came under new management this year. Now, I am finding myself building a cybersecurity program from scratch. This includes:<Enter> Implementing firewalls and network packet filtering at all of our facilities, spinning up central logging so that we can monitor and track the infrastructure in our network, creating a disaster recovery plan in the event that our building burns down or something and we lose all our equipment, penetration testing (or ethical hacking), physical security, redundancy everywhere, a formal training program, and a host of other things.<Enter> As some other posters have mentioned, Security can still be very technical. However, there are un-technical security people, but you honestly don't want to be one of those if you can help it. The technical people are always the most sought after.<Enter> My best advice would be this (which is how I got into system administration without a degree in the first place): Find something you love to do and learn everything you possibly can about it. You'll find eventually that even though you've never done it professionally, you know so much and can talk like someone knows what they're doing. Other than that it's a matter of finding someone that's willing to give you a shot.

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