is cyber security still worth it in 2025 I've gone down the proverbial Rabbit Hole of the state of the job market in 2025 the state of artificial intelligence the state of all cyber security jobs as a whole the state of Mississippi I'm dying this [ __ ] country Fu up town and I've come to the conclusion that I'll cover at the end everyone is talking about layoffs and AI take and her gerbs how hard it is out here in the job market and cyber security has the same complaints as every other Tech job out there
so let's address the 800 lb gorillas in the room for what they are big ass problems but for every problem there's a solution give up no if you're a quitter then you might as well stop watching right now because working in Tech is not right for you we're innovators we're creators we're you're fired what I said you're fired this massive spike in layoffs has brought with it Mass Pandemonium the tech job market has pulled in unsuspecting College grads self-taught three Monon savants bitter redditors and everyone else in between just to spit them back out into
the world under the guys of restructuring the business which just means poor Management in the form of over hiring and overloading remaining employees to maximize profits why do with 10 people what you can do with one upper management probably money the business wanted to retain their money because inflation rates were skyrocketing and the state of the US economy was projected to metaphorically combusted to flames behold the US inflation rates compared to the tech layoffs since the start of Co coincidence I think not here we are in 2025 inflation rates and layoffs are trending down things
are looking up or down with the Outlook looking bright and layoffs stabilizing as businesses have hopefully by now figured their out so there's less layoffs are there jobs available well according to this chart on cyber.org there are roughly the same amount of open positions now as there have been for the last decade on a year-to-year basis every year is roughly 500,000 open jobs in the US roughly 4 million globally um excuse me ghost listings yes those exist but guess what they've always existed and they will continue to exist ghost listings refer to jobs that will
never be filled because this lots of reasons is it annoying yes can it be stopped no the sooner we make our peace with reality the sooner we can move on to the important stuff your competition for the real jobs remember those laid-off employees they're going after those jobs and college grads and people who have had it up to here with Sharon in HR working help desk oh and guess what people who don't live in the US at all remember those 500,000 jobs those can get eaten up real quick by the billions of people we have
globally if you ask me I don't think we're experiencing a shortage of jobs in cyber security we have a surge of awareness for cyber sec security jobs that is paired with the increase in how easy it is to apply to the jobs people everywhere can apply to these jobs meaning we have more people applying to cyber security jobs than ever before and that growth has not been matched with an increase in demand that is quick enough to hire the sudden increase in applicants so we inevitably will see job postings with thousands of applicants are all
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stop playing wow and start playing tryck me now now if we ignore the Pandora's Box that the global increased availability of technology has done to the job application process we can focus on another problem AI coming for our jobs your jobs AI is new it's sexy it's complicated and those streams of post you see saying AI is going to take over every cyber security job or most of them is coming from people who don't know what jobs exist in cyber security or what they do AI can help automate a lot of rudimentary tasks in cyber
security scans audits analysis but much like every other Tech positions like software engineering the fear mongering needs to stop it's time to stop especially from those who don't know what they're talking about it's time to stop I challenge anyone in the comments to explain with realworld examples of how AI is going to completely replace and remove any one cyber security role outright by listing every job responsibility they have and how AI is going to replace it every cyber security role from company to company is different from scios to Architects to Engineers to the analysts to
every role available at a mom and pop shop small mid to Enterprise level companies every role is different at every company with different tasks tools and needs AI is a feature that is is being built into pretty much every tool these days to make every role more efficient just like technology adapts so do Tech roles that's it it's that simple cyber security is on the Forefront of mainstream news now people are flocking in droves to land that cushy remote job but that job requires not only a deep understanding of computer systems networking and how to
abuse both of those but also people skills just like any other job you have to not only know how to do the technical side of things but also how to work on a team how to communicate properly and explain what you know to other people cyber security roles are projected to grow because technology isn't going anywhere the need for security is also not going anywhere in fact in my opinion it's the largest growing need in Tech right now we need people interested in securing everything before someone unleashes an AI worm that takes down everything if
you're not fully interested in cyber security and continuously learning about evolving Technologies like AI then why are you trying to get into cyber security holy crap so is cyber security still worth it you're asking the wrong questions you got to ask yourself is cyber security worth it for you make sure you check out try hackme to find out if cyber security is in fact still worth it for you how does it feel to treat me like you do when you play your
