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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely a good choice.

On a related note, I was talking with some current Computer Science students, interning in our office this summer, and they were discussing the over-saturation of CS majors.  They advised a couple of us with HS seniors to encourage our kids to choose cyber instead.[/quote]

The differentiation between cyber and CS is a little odd.  I spend about half my time programming, and the other half doing "cyber" - specifically compliance for a large agency.

A CS degree (what I have) is a broad-based education, focusing on CS fundamentals that can apply in any subfield (including cyber).

[b]Cyber degrees seem more vocational, focusing on tools, techniques and practices.  It's a specialization, but anyone that can get through a CS degree won't have any problems with "Cyber" tasks and materials.[/b]

It would be like the English department offering a Poetry degree.

My opinion:  go with a CS degree and learn cyber tools, if that's what you want to do.

Setting opportunities aside - cybersecurity, the way it's practiced today, is boring and frankly a little depressing.  It's the worst part of my job.  It's less about catching "bad guys" and more about ensuring that systems are compliant with standards, bugging teams to patch their systems, and writing reports.  You create nothing...

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Discussing DS's future class schedule for his CS, I inquired about his lack of cyber classes. (I'm NOT in the field so I'm speaking as an outsider). He said he could take online certification or boot camps focusing on cyber if needed. [/quote]

He's absolutely right.

You can sit for one of the certification exams.  Get the CISSP book, thumb through it, take the test and then you're certified.  If you want to work in this area, any gov contractor will pick you up.  Gov contracts typically have requirements to have security roles, and those roles require certain certificates (e.g., security+, CISSP).  It's a racket, of course, pushed by industry to sell books and seminars.

Again, I'd encourage DS to concentrate on software development and learning the craft of programming.  Long term, it's much more rewarding than running scans, writing reports, and getting woken up at 2am.

If you want quick $$$, I get it...[/quote]

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