50 Things I Wish I Had Known About Being a Cyber Security Student It’s an exciting time to enter the field of cyber security. As of 2016, there were over 1 million unfilled job openings in the field. And by 2021, there will be an estimated 3.5 million unfilled job openings. Cyber security as it is currently perceived is also an incredibly new field. As you move up in your new career, you’ll be able to leave a mark harder to achieve in more established fields. The relative youth of the fie...