Ask HN: What are possible career paths in cybersecurity policy?

4 points by hagibborim 5y ago ↗ HN

The question almost says it all: I am working towards an MSc in cybersecurity policy at Georgia Tech and will have 6 years of Devops and SRE experience once I'm done. To make sure I'm taking into all my options I figured I should ask here: what are some career paths that can combine my policy and engineering experience?

Thank you in advance!

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relaunched 5y ago ↗

I'd suggest you look I to the technical compliance route - PCI and HiTrust have many technical. requirements.

There are also many companies that develop technical compliance tools - ServiceNow, Archer, Vulcan, etc.

Becoming a technical auditor, QSR, pen tester, etc. might be an option.

probinso 5y ago ↗

https://www.techcongress.io/congressional-innovation-fellows

this is an annual position to influence policy in technology

probinso 5y ago ↗

You can also find companies that do policy related work. Companies like Free and Fair better dedicated to policy and technology for online voting.

I know of others that are in engineering and policy, but not off the top of my head for security as well

hagibborim 5y ago ↗

Thank you! This is exactly what I'm looking for!