What Is a Feeder Role?
Known as feeder roles, the jobs mentioned above often serve as stepping stones into a cybersecurity career because of the similarities in skill requirements and significant skill overlap with multiple core cybersecurity roles.
Choose Your Own Cybersecurity Career
There are many opportunities for IT pros to start and advance their careers within cybersecurity. CyberSeek’s interactive career pathway shows key jobs within cybersecurity, common transition opportunities between them and detailed information about the salaries, credentials and skillsets associated with each role.
These core cybersecurity roles are the most commonly requested job categories across the cybersecurity ecosystem. They are classified as entry level, mid-level or advanced level based upon the experience, education levels and credentials requested by employers.
The Skills Needed for Cybersecurity
Your experience in networking and IT infrastructure gives you certain transferable skills that match those required for the cybersecurity job roles shown in the pathway below, including cybersecurity specialist, cybersecurity analyst, penetration tester and cybersecurity engineer.
If you have any of the following skills, highlighting them on your resume and during interviews can help position you as an excellent candidate for the more than 245,000 cybersecurity jobs in the United States that fall into the networking feeder role pathway.
- Information Security
- Information Systems
- Cryptography
- Information Assurance
- Security Operations
- Risk Assessment
- Python
- Risk Management
- JAVA
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