Career Crisis: Cyber to Software

Hello fellow security enthusiasts!

I am a software engineering graduate (27y) with a specialization in cybersecurity. Currently, I have been working for approximately 5 years at an ethical hacking company, focusing on web application penetration testing.
In those years I have developed internal tooling (which I enjoyed) and performed white-box web app penetration tests.

Working in this role has provided me with extensive knowledge and the satisfaction of understanding the inner workings of systems and techniques to bypass them. However, …

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