Recently graduated college and now work at a F500 company as an appsec analyst. I don’t have a strong background in tech so I’m really struggling and don’t love the job because of it. I have the opportunity to get into cyber consulting in Big4 and was wondering if that would be a smart move? I like the idea of being exposed to different areas of cyber and I would get a 15% increase in pay.

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Depending on what practice you go into, you may still be doing AppSec

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Are you interested in and area specifically?

Yeah.. if you are not really into tech (and I mean live it, breath it even off hours) it’s tough to do a technical role. B4 will give you a chance at easing into it. Peeps are right though our projects can be massive you can end up doing just about anything.. including taking notes and doing admin type work until you get up to speed. You’ll have a shot doing what you like at some point if you have good soft skills and keep studying.

Many more areas in cyber at a big 4. Just make sure you’re not doing appsec as it’s pretty technical.

Please don't go into security unless you want to be technical and want to eat - live and breathe this stuff.

It's an important field that takes a huge amount of after hours work to stay ahead of the curve.

You will hate the field unless you love getting into the weeds

You could also go strategy (aka nist gap assessments) but then again....if you don't have technical depth you won't be able to accurately evaluate a client's environment.

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