Cybersecurity/Info security career

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Externally very glamorous and well but internally not very structured and reorg every other year so far since conception 2019. Staff retention is bad, and recently hiring alot non it staff to train while more experienced ones left.

Pb/vb slightly higher than other SI, pay and increment is worse than the other SI unless you from their "royal" family.

More of vendor management instead of hands on for engineers.

Have been through a few SI, definitely wont be going back to ensign ever again...

This is very true. The pay and increment is very bad...

Originally Posted by Unregistered

This company renamed from eCop to Quann to Ensign. As per the idiom, change soup but never change herbs, the foul odor still remains.

hahaha dunno gonna change name again or not..

but under temasek leh lololol got mother temasek.

E confirm better than N la hahahaha

[wilsonc]

hi everyone, havent come in here in a long while and was surprised to see that this thread has 10 pages lol. Anyway, just to share my short experience working in IT cybersecurity industry as a cybersecurity engineer.

Maybe it is the place i was working at or maybe it is the domain i was in but I realised that the average cybersecurity engineer are not very skilled...basically we are like glorified IT worker la.

Secondly, i found out that cybersecurity doesn't really pay well and there's many weekend/sudden jobs at night. Again, this might be due to the place I was at/the role I was in so YMMV.

I think that those who are very skilled and most probably pays well are working in areas such as pentesters, malware analyst so try to aim for that area if you are really passionate about cybersecurity.

Anyway, I left my previous company in less than a year and transitioned to software engineer at a bank. If count my basic pay, I got a 80% increase in salary. So for those who are reading this, if you dont mind doing programming, just be a software engineer unless you really got passion for cybersecurity lol.

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Originally Posted by wilsonc

hi everyone, havent come in here in a long while and was surprised to see that this thread has 10 pages lol. Anyway, just to share my short experience working in IT cybersecurity industry as a cybersecurity engineer.

Maybe it is the place i was working at or maybe it is the domain i was in but I realised that the average cybersecurity engineer are not very skilled...basically we are like glorified IT worker la.

Secondly, i found out that cybersecurity doesn't really pay well and there's many weekend/sudden jobs at night. Again, this might be due to the place I was at/the role I was in so YMMV.

I think that those who are very skilled and most probably pays well are working in areas such as pentesters, malware analyst so try to aim for that area if you are really passionate about cybersecurity.

Anyway, I left my previous company in less than a year and transitioned to software engineer at a bank. If count my basic pay, I got a 80% increase in salary. So for those who are reading this, if you dont mind doing programming, just be a software engineer unless you really got passion for cybersecurity lol.

The real money is in the product vendor side. Big boys like Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, F5 etc all pay boatloads of money - easily twice or thrice that in SIs.

The high earners in cybersecurity are those in product vendors - pay is easily 2x to 3x of those in SIs.

Originally Posted by wilsonc

hi everyone, havent come in here in a long while and was surprised to see that this thread has 10 pages lol. Anyway, just to share my short experience working in IT cybersecurity industry as a cybersecurity engineer.

Maybe it is the place i was working at or maybe it is the domain i was in but I realised that the average cybersecurity engineer are not very skilled...basically we are like glorified IT worker la.

Secondly, i found out that cybersecurity doesn't really pay well and there's many weekend/sudden jobs at night. Again, this might be due to the place I was at/the role I was in so YMMV.

I think that those who are very skilled and most probably pays well are working in areas such as pentesters, malware analyst so try to aim for that area if you are really passionate about cybersecurity.

Anyway, I left my previous company in less than a year and transitioned to software engineer at a bank. If count my basic pay, I got a 80% increase in salary. So for those who are reading this, if you dont mind doing programming, just be a software engineer unless you really got passion for cybersecurity lol.

[wilsonc]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

The high earners in cybersecurity are those in product vendors - pay is easily 2x to 3x of those in SIs.

Can share some examples of companies/roles? No way the pay is 2x to 3x of SIs la unless you talking about C level positions..

Originally Posted by wilsonc

Can share some examples of companies/roles? No way the pay is 2x to 3x of SIs la unless you talking about C level positions..

I don't think SIs can pay 15k basic for individual contributor positions...? Yet it's pretty common for MNC product vendors..

[wilsonc]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I don't think SIs can pay 15k basic for individual contributor positions...? Yet it's pretty common for MNC product vendors..

wow 15k basic for individual contributor! I don't think department heads in SI can even reach 12k hahaha.