Computers are programming.

They are binary systems using electrical currents to dictate on and off, using this with instructions to calculate mathematics. That mathematics is then read, extracted, interpolated, transformed, abstracted and interpreted to form every single part and layer of the computer and all digital technology from the ground up.

It's also I think one of the largest and most often overlooked parts of security. You are not going to get a security job anywhere if you can't program, simple as that.

And the better you are at programming (Through both skill and experience), the more everything in the computing world is going to start make sense because it's all grounded by the fundamental logic of programming and mathematics, just abstracted so many times for the usual user that they never see any of it.

And then the one fundamental layer above that is networking, which again is the function of programming between machines. And absolutely as important.

You have to remember that your job isn't going to be Cybersecurity, your job is going to be IT Specialising in Cybersecurity. The fundamental aspects of your life is 80% general networking, programming, technologies and concepts with a 20% topper of security concepts and techniques.