Starting to see an interesting shift on applications from folks with general cyber skills and degrees / certs to folks with highly specialized experience with specific tools and platforms. Guess this is ok if you are looking to fill a specific need, but what happened to the seasoned cyber pros with broad exposure to all security domains? Is it just me or are others seeing the same?

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Always been that way. Not good to be a generalist. Hands on keys people do the best. IMHO.

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I reckon generalists, geeks who are curious about a broad range of things and have long experience are just less common thesedays. That and, I think few people recognise the value of such versus specialists when hiring. New entrants will focus on specific tracks to get into the industry

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I have SOC, SIEM, XDR, Linux, Sales Eng., CyberRange training bkgd but most job openings I see that aren't swamped w/ 100s or 1000s of rezs want very specific skillsets like devops, prog., IAM etc. that I only have modest exposure to.

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