Also called: Cyber Threat Hunter
Searches through a company's networks for hidden hackers that no alarm has caught yet.
You start with a hunch, maybe that attackers are hiding inside normal-looking admin tools, and dig through millions of log lines to prove or disprove it. When you find something, you hand it to incident responders and write a new detection so it gets caught automatically next time.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 7 years after high school. Bachelor's in cybersecurity; years in security operations; often military cyber experience.
Ways in: 4-year college, Military, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Cybersecurity, Computer Science.
Growing much faster than average (about 29% over 10 years). Tracks information security analysts.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. AI flags suspicious patterns, but proactive hunting for stealthy hackers relies on human intuition and experience.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, AP Statistics, Psychology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1212.
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