Why choose Cyber Security as a career

I think if you are looking for a life long career that is always growing and fun the choice is cyber security. 

The adversaries are constantly getting more skilled at taking down networks and exfiltrating data. This means analysts need to get better at stopping them. In this industry you will never know everything which means you grow as an analyst. 

Working in security can be fun as well as it is basically playing a game of clue. For anyone who likes to do puzzles or play games like clue this is a job you will love.

What is a SOC

The security operations center is the heart of security. It is where you have your analysts and that information is passed to threat intelligence, incident response and your other security support teams. 

This is impacted by what your company delivers to your customer or company. Some security companies don’t offer incident response or other services. They do rely on the information from the soc. 

The basic job of a SOC is to analyse the data given to them by the company. This will include event logs and system logs. This data is everything that occurs on the host be it a server or a computer. From internet browser history to computer games being accessed on the host. The company does decide what data the SOC will analyse and how many hosts your employer is installed on.

What Is An Adversary

An adversary or more commonly known as a threat actor are people who work on gaining access to networks. 

This can be for stealing data or stopping companies from being able to operate by stopping their networks from being able to work. 

They don’t always have technical skills like hackers but always have malicious intent. Most of the time their main goal is financial gain.