Introducing you to the cybersecurity roadmap
As you learned in the previous chapter, cybersecurity is a general term to describe an industry where professionals manage security risks secure and defend infrastructures, systems, and applications that may be internet-associated. That is, indeed, what cybersecurity professionals do in a nutshell. However, the definition can sound quite vague if you are trying to decide on the right cybersecurity vocation. How and what exactly do you defend? What does "defend" precisely mean in the context of cybersecurity? To have a clearer view, let's break all these questions down into pieces.
Cybersecurity is no myth; you can refer to it in the same way as you think of other fields and subfields. For example, take the hospitality industry as an example. "Hospitality" refers to the service industry, and under hospitality, there are subfields, such as hotel service, lodging service, dining service, and so on. Similarly, cybersecurity acts as a broad field that contains different subfields with different focuses.
In the following mind map, several domains have been classified:
Figure 2.1 – Cybersecurity domains
As shown in the preceding diagram, Frameworks and Standards was introduced to you in the previous chapter. Thus, in this chapter, we will be focusing on other domains presented in the map. Let's take a look.
