In the highly competitive arena of cybersecurity, job hunters are finding it rather difficult to differentiate themselves. But like most other tech jobs, cybersecurity is constantly evolving, with job candidates expected to know about the latest threats and how to combat them—and sometimes HR departments’ expectations are almost impossible to meet.
That said, cybersecurity professionals should look at the duties expected from them through a different lens; in order to succeed in the highly competitive cybersecurity market, they’ll need to look at the science of cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity has become all about data relationships—or more specifically, the relationships between actions and data to develop a baseline of what is acceptable behavior. However, there is a great deal more to securing systems than monitoring the behaviors of applications, users, and services; that troublesome fact is evident in the rise in malicious attacks such as ransomware and phishing.
In light of that, cybersecurity professionals need to approach cybersecurity from a more scientific point of view. For instance, there’s a growing interest in ontology, or more…
