Security News > 2021 > July > You don't have to be a tech expert to become a cybersecurity pro
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke to Ning Wang, CEO of Offensive Security, about what it takes to become a cybersecurity professional.
Karen Roby: The unfortunate reality, Ning, and I know you've been in the tech world for a long time now, and have worked with so many different kinds of people, and I think that's the interesting thing is that you don't have to have a tech background in order to be successful in cybersecurity.
You may think that you have to have so much technology background to go into security.
From there, it's everyone that's doing the job, that their main job may not be security, whether it's a developer, system admin, network engineers, but they all have a hand in security.
Everyone that's doing the job, they have to think about how to have that security mindset awareness.
Then you need the security experts that monitor, that checks, that does the proactive hacking so that the offense side is so you can try to catch your weakness before the bad guys take advantage of it.