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Specialties that pay more

• Incident response

  The people called in when a company is breached. Stressful, well paid, often contract.

• Cloud security

  Securing AWS (Amazon Web Services), Azure and Google Cloud. Certificates from each vendor.

• Penetration testing

  Being paid to break in. A separate career on this site.

• Governance and compliance

  Policy, audits and privacy law. Less technical, and banks pay well for it.