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Cybersecurity verstehen: Rollen, Wege und Einstiegsmöglichkeiten

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Mete Demirci
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Mete Demirci
Documenting a cybersecurity journey through practical work, technical depth, and honest reflection.

Presented as a job I/O Deep Dive together with Leon Rohde from Deloitte, this session provides an accessible map of the cybersecurity field for people who are still deciding where they might fit.

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About the Session
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Cybersecurity is often presented as a single profession, even though the work spans very different responsibilities, mindsets, and career paths.

The talk introduces some of the most common roles and groups them into four broad perspectives:

  • people who build systems and security into them;
  • defenders who monitor, investigate, and respond;
  • attackers who identify and demonstrate weaknesses;
  • governance professionals who translate risk, regulation, and business requirements into a security program.

The goal is to make those areas understandable without requiring deep technical knowledge first. Rather than prescribing one perfect route, the session shows how different backgrounds, interests, and strengths can lead into cybersecurity.

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The session took place on 28 May 2026 as part of job I/O. The original event page contains the organizer’s description and speaker profiles:

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Where My Cybersecurity Journey Began

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Before I started studying for my first certification, I did something that was probably both useful and slightly insane. I researched almost the entire certification ecosystem. Before answering a single practice question, I looked at the different providers, their certification paths, how employers viewed them, how useful their content appeared to be and where they seemed to fit into an actual IT or cybersecurity career. I looked at CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft, AWS, ISC2, ISACA, OffSec, GIAC and many others. I compared entry-level certifications, professional certifications, technical certifications, management certifications and certifications that seemed to exist mainly because companies like putting logos into job descriptions.