Advice for someone in IT Audit looking into pivoting into a career in cyber? I have about 1 1/2 years in IT audit and have worked on a couple of cyber assessments/cyber program transformations. Feeling a bit lost as Cyber is such a broad career. Since my experience has been mainly in GRC should I look into other Big4 cyber consulting practices or should i go a different route. Thinking about going after a cyber certification before I start applying but not sure how much longer I can stay in IT

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Your easiest transition would be into cyber risk with an IT audit background. You can look around at different firms and see if there’s any opening in cyber practices related to cyber risk. Be careful when looking at job openings though. If the job opening mentions IT SOX anywhere or SOC reports, it’s most likely an audit position disguised as a consulting role.

If you want to transition into something more technical, it would be much harder but not impossible. Get some certs, any try to get on internal projects that may build your skills. But this is the more difficult route.

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Did you just post the other thing in this bowl? Lol

Yes cyber is huge, but GRC is a huge function of the B4. Get a cert for fun, network with leaders where you wanna be, and keep trying friend.

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No that was me lol but yea I want out of it audit as soon as possible

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Big 4 cyber is still mostly controls work, you get to escape sox but still deal with controls (soc 2, iso 27001)

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Cyber is so broad. Focus on a specific domain in cyber. What do you want to do? Technical work? Controls work? Figure that out first.

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