Cybersecurity · by Siti Lestari · 2026-09-02

anybody move from general sysadmin work into blue team in their 30s

I've done infra and endpoint wrangling forever, lots of incident-ish work, decent scripting, but not a formal security title. Considering making the jump. Curious what actually translated well and what blindsided you once you were in detection/response land full time.

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Amina Okafor · 5 likes

Your troubleshooting stamina translates immediately.

Camila Rocha · 4 likes

I made the jump at 34. No regrets, but expect to learn a lot of log weirdness fast.

Siti Lestari · 1 likes

Log weirdness I can do. Formal incident writeups might be my bigger hill

Lucía García · 1 likes

You'll probably know more about how systems really fail than some entry-level security folks.

Salma Idrissi · 0 likes

The biggest shift for me was documentation discipline. Cases need a cleaner paper trail than admin chaos usually does.