Finding Your Feet In Cybersecurity: A Reddit Text Mining Approach
Prerit Datta, Moitrayee Chatterjee · 2022 IEEE 46th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) · 2022
The International Information System Security Certification Consortium, Inc (ISC)2Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 2021, underscored the fact that there is a glaring 2.72 million global deficit of cybersecurity talent. Despite the availability of various learning resources, starting or advancing a career in cybersecurity demands extensive time and effort to select the appropriate resources. Individuals need to identify their prior knowledge and interest and map them appropriately to future learning requirements. The task of choosing an appropriate cybersecurity job profile and acquiring the necessary knowledge, ability, and skills across the variety of online information, can be a difficult undertaking. In this work, we explored data from an online community, Reddit, and applied Natural Language Processing techniques to identify the commonly referred skills, roles, and certifications in cybersecurity. This information can then be leveraged to recommend a systematic way on how to navigate a career in cybersecurity.