I'm relatively new to security, coming from innovation. It's a completely different way of thinking: what can this do vs. what can we make this thing do. Then,

I'm relatively new to security, coming from innovation. It's a completely different way of thinking: what can this do vs. what can we make this thing do. Then, there's the whole incident response part of the job, which is like riding lightening. It's adrenalin filled and terrifying, but everyone is working together in a high-stakes game that could, literally, lead to material badness for your customers, company, etc. Having never served, I image it's a lower-stakes version of what they see in the intelligence community.