I run a cybersecurity company that has been training Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts for many years. SOC analysts are in high demand in the cybersecurity business because they often serve as the “human intelligence” foundation for companies to protect themselves against cyber attack. In fact, many of the world’s largest corporations use SOC analysts, along with the latest cyber defense technologies, to prevent hackers from penetrating their valuable corporate networks.
But things have changed in the last few years: large businesses have the budgets to spend on sophisticated cyber technology and human intelligence, which means their defenses are harder to penetrate, so cyber criminals have moved to easier targets: consumers and small businesses, many of which work from home on insecure wireless networks connected to foreign made IoT devices.
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