[MaximumYComb]

My field is cyber security, not development, but I feel like I get to "fuck around" with computers all day. I'm so lucky that I have a job which I enjoy so much that also rewards so well financially. I still pinch myself when I think that people actually pay me to do this for a living.

I deal with a lot of work that's really similar to puzzle solving. "Why did this occur? Is it normal behaviour or malicious?" and then I get to do deep dives trying to figure out why something happened. If I find malicious behaviour I get to go into incident response mode and boot out a bad guy. If I find a false positive I get to do some engineering to figure out how to avoid this while still maintaining the purpose of the original rules (while also minimising system overhead for the rule processing). The kicker is there are a LOT of companies willing to pay me a LOT of money to do this. I'm so incredibly lucky.

[mastersummoner]

Super cool: security is such a fascinating field. One of the things I love about software is that there's _so many_ interesting and different directions one can go, depending on your own interests and predilections.

Either way though, security is incredibly important. You're doin' the lord's work.

[Valakas_]

I'm interested in this field, as I relate to your mentality of finding it interesting and losing myself and sense of time trying to solve puzzles. If I wanted to go into cyber security, what would you say one should learn/do?

[emodendroket]

Hey maybe you're smarter than me, but it took me a lot of studying to be able to hang with the big dogs, so to speak, in software development.