Cyber Sec is complex and huge domain. Several career tracks within Cyber Sec starting from policy and compliance , Crypto Experts , Red/Purple/Blue teams, General security engineering, cloud security , App sec, SOC and now DevSecOps. It’s not easy to train people on these.

It’s not like cyber guys are most smart out there and are preventing adversary but it needs border knowledge of multiple domain and technology to make sense and think how to secure them. Most people in industry got there starting their career as network engineer , firewalls , ldap , pki etc.

I anyone is trying to get there feet wet now, I would recommend starting career as devops , then further into pen testing , security research , malware analys, app sec and eventually bug bounty kind of stuff . This path is if you are fairly technical and really passionate about cyber sec. Don’t go this route just for easy pay cheque .