Skillset focus?

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Apr 10 7 Comments

I work for a startup and have been here for quite a few years now. Started out in the trenches and built my way up to the lead engineer on our security team. Was talking to a recruiter who asked what my specialty was, and I honestly wasn't able to give an answer.

I've been a jack of all trades for my entire time here (an MSP) and have delt with everything ranging from security assessments (code analysis, mobile apps, web apps; etc), incident response cases, digital forensics cases, managing and directing small teams for projects, building out security solutions for clients and the such. That being said, while I'm able to get the job done, I wouldn't call myself a master of the mentioned.

I gotten a bit too used to the startup MSP life and I'm honestly not sure what step to go in. Should I start focusing in a specific skillset? Or maybe should I continue to build out my entire skillset in a broad manner? Which would be more useful?

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  • Google
    Oa7dnT

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    Oa7dnT
    Plenty of companies still look for strong generalists, although maybe not with quite as wide of a skillset as both appsec, IR/forensics. You could certainly find something that would make use of 80% of that and not require too much specialization.
    Apr 13 1
  • Blend
    🥜🥜 Farmer

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    🥜🥜 Farmer
    Learn IaC and apply for Infra, SRE, or “DevSecOps” positions
    Apr 15 1
    • Bolt
      boltanon

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      boltanon
      This is good advice. I recommend Infrasec over SRE, but that’s a preference issue. Learn Terraform and Python automation (see boto3 library) and you can land a great role for shops that use AWS. Also, decide what size of company you want to work at. The level of specialization is going to correlate with headcount, so you should think about how specialized you want to be in a few years.
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  • NewState of California Departmen / Eng
    fbgm3

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    fbgm3
    Don’t have any advice but can I DM you?
    Apr 10 1
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      annieonly

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      annieonly
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      Sure, no problem
      Apr 11
  • Verizon
    ulyB06

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    ulyB06
    Yes, look at job descriptions that interest you. Pick one domain so you can focus on interview prep for that and tailor your resume/elevator pitch for it.
    Apr 13 0