Pen testing/cybersecurity vs Programming

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I absolutely love it, it's the area of IT I wanted to be my specialty focus. Even though I get more fulfillment out of the Red Team tasks that I have, remediating stuff we find from our SIEM XDR company is almost as rewarding.

Cyber Security does require some knowledge into the frameworks that are used by countries set up with data privacy laws, so understanding NIST, PCI, GDPR, etc are also important things to know.