After talking with some friends, looks like cyber is shifting in the industries. Focus now is more on technical skills and less on management. It makes sense in some ways, if you had the budget for only one guy, companies will take the technical guy over the nontechnical.

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The CEO of IBM was on GMA earlier today saying the exact opposite. Emphasizing that folks with soft skills are as important as ever, and absolutely necessary to bridge gaps, communicate, etc. in technical fields like sw development, cyber, etc.

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Obviously both are important

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You’ll always see more job for tech roles. As you move up, you need a strong understanding of the tool and soft skills become the most important. Planning and prioritizing need is also crucial, takes experience in the trenches to do this well IMO.

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The demand for both will always exist and isn’t going away for a very long time. I think we go in waves in regards to the direction the demand shifts between a technical resource verse more governance focused. The folks who are technical with soft skills is where the highest demand lives—naturally.

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Yes for cloud

I think the demand for both is and will remain sky high, i don’t really see cyber demand declining over the long run

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It has been that way for last few years and I know few CISO who were hands-on

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