Advice on moving away from being a practitioner and into policy?

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Oh no no no. I will not do Consulting for years. I already have 5 years of cybersecurity expertise under my belt I took this position for God knows what reason and consider it one of the bigger mistakes in the past five years. I didn't realize I could transition straight from my former risk position to policy but now that I know that I guess we will start trying. Thanks!

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Just off hand why do you want to move into policy and compliance

I just came from doing risk in industry and really enjoyed it but I'm thinking more strategic policy. Worked for a big tech company a few years back under their cyber policy and strategy director. I loved that work and have been trying to get back into it for years. I didn't have enough practitioner time on my resume at the time either.

People leaving big 4 traditionally transition into risk, compliancr or security architrct positions.

My guess is that after a few years doing big 4 you will be able to go back and do policies to your hearts content

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