# Infosec Skill Sets

DevFeed: [Infosec Skill Sets](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/infosec-skill-sets-30201.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.netmeister.org/blog/infosec-skillsets.html>)

Published: 2022-01-21T03:27:56Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Signs of Triviality](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signs-of-triviality.md>)

Topics: [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [Computer science](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/computer-science.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>)

Tags: [infosec](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infosec.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>), [soft-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/soft-skills.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses how information-security professionals develop different combinations of technical and non-technical skills. It uses overlapping Venn-diagram categories to distinguish computer science, programming, operations, networking, and software engineering, while emphasizing that no single background is required for everyone.

## Source excerpt

Soft skills are hard, and everybody's career path different. Some skill sets tend to intersect, however. Here's my simplified breakdown using, what else, Venn diagrams.