SIEM Administrators - Is This a Big Thing?
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So I'm currently learning my company's SIEM product. That being said, I was told that getting good with a SIEM is a very marketable skill outside of my company's support. The gist of the statement was that if you get really good with a SIEM, you can be a SIEM administrator, which is a six-figure job. I'm curious at just how accurate that is. I won't deny that with security becoming more and more important every year, a good SIEM is important to have, I will say. For government and enterprise companies, it's essential. However, is this something you can seriously make a career of? Thoughts?
Thanks,
A.J. -
It is definitely a growing career area. But one that I see so many people flooding into that I am concerned that it will be like nursing - once a field gets popular with educators to recommend then everyone goes into it and the market drops. I agree that it is a growing field and if you are at the top of it right now, you are sitting pretty. But as a long term career prospect it is probably not nearly as good as it is right now. Likely security payscales and opportunity are at their all time high now.
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@scottalanmiller said:
It is definitely a growing career area. But one that I see so many people flooding into that I am concerned that it will be like nursing - once a field gets popular with educators to recommend then everyone goes into it and the market drops. I agree that it is a growing field and if you are at the top of it right now, you are sitting pretty. But as a long term career prospect it is probably not nearly as good as it is right now. Likely security payscales and opportunity are at their all time high now.
Ok, that's good to know.
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I could be wrong, the market consensus does not agree with me. Nearly everyone says that it is a booming field and will be huge. But I've seen that behaviour before and that is what people said about teaching, nursing and nearly every other field that rapidly becomes over saturated and all of the people working in that field see incomes plummet and people entering the field end up without a way to get a job because experienced people already have them all.
The problem here is that security is one of those jobs that sounds cool to teachers, parents and kids. Tell a kid that being a "system admin" is cool and they won't have a clue why. Tell them that they will be on a "security team" and it sounds neat to the layman. Anything that normal people know about in IT.... can only be so high up in the field.