Your IT job isn’t a detour on the way to cybersecurity. It’s the on-ramp. This video maps the most practical cybersecurity pathways for IT pros: sysadmin to SOC analyst or cloud security, network engineer to network security engineer, database administrator to SIEM engineering and data security, and developer to application security, each with a realistic timeline. It also covers the mindset shift from maximum uptime to calculated uptime, and how the Threat & Control Method (Inventory, Threats, Controls, Scale) turns “I managed servers” into security language a hiring manager recognizes.
Prefer to read? The full written breakdown, with role-by-role salary ranges and a 12-month plan, is in Cybersecurity Jobs for IT Pros: The Career Path That Actually Works.
