Too old to hack? Too late to try? Welcome to cybersecurity anyway

You scroll through job boards, your cursor hovering over yet another opening for a “junior” security analyst – ten bullet points deep in certifications and acronyms you barely recognize. Somewhere between “SOC2 compliance” and “SIEM management,” it hits you: is it already too late?

The world keeps telling us that cybersecurity is wide open. It’s the fastest-growing, most talent-hungry industry of the next decade. And yet, the deeper you go, the more it feels like a secret club for hacker prodigies, ex-military red-teamers, and 22-year-old CTF wizards who’ve been rooting Linux boxes since middle school.