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Who cares? The fact that you managed the land the same job as them with an unrelated background shows that you have something to offer on the table. A lot of people would kill to work in cyber right now.
OP I had the same experience (just accounting / financial audit background -> just IT) and you’ll be surprised how helpful that accounting degree really is. Sure you may struggle a little
Bit with the extremely technical concepts, but you’ll be able to correlate it to the business as a whole much smoother
K1's right. Anyone can learn the technology with enough drive (and since you're interning with Big 4 I think it's safe to assume you've got it), but it's much harder to teach the applicability to the business.
Cyber, at its core, is like any other risk advisory practice. Approach it the way you would any other
How the hell do you derive IA from Cyber?
Great response guys , makes me feel a lot better. In regards to IA I have heard the work is very different, plus pwc has its own internal audit teams under risk assurance.
Is cyber advisory just their code word for internal audit? If so you’ll be doing a bunch of SOX so you should be fine
You derive IA from Cyber because that’s all cyber people are doing. Designing controls, testing controls, monitoring controls. Twenty years ago all the B4 firms had separate ERP teams because it was the tech of the times. The only people who think cyber is unique are cyber people.