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The original was posted on /r/cybersecurity by /u/kekst1 on 2023-07-17 23:23:48+00:00.
2 weeks into my security engineering internship at a F500 company and its the steepest learning curve I have ever experienced. It's definitely humbling.
Every day one FTEs takes me to their side and basically force feeds me all day the infos about our systems, processes and people. What strikes me the most is how diverse and decentralised the IT landscape is and how much it complications our work. Clients, on-prem VMware, on-prem hyper-V, AWS IaaS, Azure IaaS, AWS PaaS and k8s. One uses Ansible, one puppet to roll out my agent configurations, one ARM templates the other Terraform. Everything has a different department that is responsible etc. In 2 weeks I worked with so many different systems from a security standpoint (vuln management, EDR, network security, on-prem and cloud). And to really use these effectively you need to know bash, PS, Ansible, OCI/harbor, ci/cd with yaml, networking etc. I'm honestly really glad I choose Cybersecurity because I'm a career changer (currently finishing an unrelated degree) it's so much fun working in the intersection of so many different infrastructures, processes and organizational structures!