IT career people, is a degree in cyber security worth it?
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Asking on behalf of my nephew. He’s working a pretty dead end job in a factory atm. Bright lad, just didn’t try at school really, he’s fascinated with computers, building them etc. Seems the open university are now doing a cyber security degree, something that he’s very interested in and could do part time whilst working.
If he came out successfully at the end with the qualification, would that put him in good stead for a job in that area, or are there better ways in? He’s 26 currently. What sort of salary are these guys earning to begin with and what can it lead to?
Said I’d ask on here for him because I think there’s some of you already working in this field.
TIA.
If he came out successfully at the end with the qualification, would that put him in good stead for a job in that area, or are there better ways in? He’s 26 currently. What sort of salary are these guys earning to begin with and what can it lead to?
Said I’d ask on here for him because I think there’s some of you already working in this field.
TIA.
Interesting thread over on Reddit specifically about pay in the U.K. cyber security sector. There’s either a few lies being told or genuinely after a few years experience you can earn some serious money.
Still begs the question, computer science degree, cyber security degree or another way of getting a foot in the door? I’m a plc programmer, not sure how/what my route in could be?
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/xl...
Still begs the question, computer science degree, cyber security degree or another way of getting a foot in the door? I’m a plc programmer, not sure how/what my route in could be?
https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/xl...
A question on behalf of myself now guys, if anyone could answer me? My current employer has offered to let me do a degree of my choosing with the open University. I am a plc programmer by trade. I would love to do a degree something related to computers and networking such as computer science, ideally in the future moving into IT as a career.
The OU doesn’t do a Computer Science degree as such but does do one named IT and computing (with various legs off that). From what I can understand it’s only a few modules different to a computer science degree.
On paper do you think it matters in the IT industry if I was looking for an entry level job whether or not I had a computer science degree vs the OU’s one?
Link for OU computing and IT degree list…
https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/computing-it/degree...
The OU doesn’t do a Computer Science degree as such but does do one named IT and computing (with various legs off that). From what I can understand it’s only a few modules different to a computer science degree.
On paper do you think it matters in the IT industry if I was looking for an entry level job whether or not I had a computer science degree vs the OU’s one?
Link for OU computing and IT degree list…
https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/computing-it/degree...
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