An Excellent Entry into Cybersecurity - Principal Security Analyst CRITICALSTART Employee Review

Critical Start is a small to medium sized business within the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) space. Because of its size and culture, it's able to leverage some truly unique benefits: * Great benefits: health care paid by company, unlimited (within reason) PTO, and multiple positions (including entry level analysts) have some work from home days. * Genuine Culture: Within the SOC specifically, there's a 3 month training program to bring incoming analysts up to speed. I can honestly say these people are passionate about learning in this field, and always curious. If you're looking for ego maniacs, you won't find them here. * Movement between departments: though positions aren't always available, there's multiple departments one can specialize in, and pivot to if work becomes tedious in a current role. * Clear Promotion Guidelines: for some levels of analysts within the SOC, there's clear-cut guidelines to meet for promotions. It helps bring a lot of clarity for a roadmap on where you want to go, and is a lot clearer than other relative positions. Though I only had experience in the SOC, I highly recommend anyone looking to enter into the cybersecurity field to apply here.