Ask HN: Transitioning from game development to cybersecurity. Tips or advice?
Hello HN! I was let go from my gaming job a couple of months ago, and unfortunately nothing has come up yet. Thankfully, I was thinking of moving away from the industry anyway, so this is a great opportunity to do so. I've got some savings and have given myself a year to set-up a cybersecurity consultancy business. My main target will be start-ups, and small to medium tech companies, particularly gaming ones that don't yet have a cybersecurity division, but nonetheless need one, and don't see the point of hiring a full time cybersecurity professional. The field has always interested me, and most of my games experience is doing server side development, alongside DevOps, and then straight game dev. But server work has been the bulk, so at least I'm familiar with the basics of hardening a system against interference, mostly by players trying to cheat, and every now and again against criminal interests who have targeted our games. I've got around 15+ years of exper
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