Career
Cybersecurity Analyst
Defend organizations from attacks — monitoring, incident response, architecture.
Median salary
$120K
$69K$182K
2022–2032 outlook
+32%
Much faster than averageA day in the life
- 01Review overnight alerts from the SIEM
- 02Triage an incident and write a postmortem
- 03Harden systems and update playbooks
What you'll actually do
- →Monitor networks for security breaches
- →Investigate security incidents
- →Develop security standards and best practices
Majors that lead here
Computer Science
Software Engineer, Data Scientist, Product Manager, Cybersecurity Analyst, AI/ML Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Systems Architect, Mobile Developer, Game Developer, Quantitative Analyst
Data Science & AI
Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer, Business Intelligence Analyst, AI Researcher, Data Engineer, Quantitative Analyst, Data Analyst, MLOps Engineer, Research Scientist (industry), Decision Scientist
Top colleges for this path
Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
99.5% acceptance
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
48% acceptance
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
53% acceptance
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
16% acceptance
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
11.6% acceptance
Purdue University-Main Campus
West Lafayette, IN
49.9% acceptance
Kennesaw State University
Kennesaw, GA
69.2% acceptance
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
57% acceptance
NC State University
Raleigh, NC
47% acceptance
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
45.2% acceptance
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
42.4% acceptance
University of California-San Diego
La Jolla, CA
26.7% acceptance
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