There’s also ethical offensive cyber: penetration testing apps/services with permission from the owner to find weaknesses and vulnerabilities so that they can implement fixes, or red-teaming which is basically pretending to be a threat actor and testing an organization’s overall security posture.
Not in NL, but these are some helpful career progression flow charts: https://roadmap.sh/devops https://roadmap.sh/cyber-security
This one is a map of cyber security certifications that are out there: https://pauljerimy.com/security-certification-roadmap/
These things look big and intimidating but that’s okay, I work in cyber security and there’s stuff on these that I don’t know. I feel like at least having a starting place and a path to follow can be really helpful especially if you don’t know where to start.
Also, Cyber Security is a huge field, do you want to do offensive cyber or defensive cyber? More hands-on-keyboard or more policy based? You mentioned that you wanted that you want to end us as a CISO, some of the best that I know where techs and do-ers first, definitely get some hands on experience before jumping to a policy-level position.
The most important thing about Cyber Security as a career field is to keep learning! Good luck!
That website is ass. Bunch of popups and sketchy redirections