Cybersecurity Does Not Have a Specialization Problem. It Has a Context Problem

Cybersecurity has a bad habit of mistaking specialization for maturity. A recent piece at The Hacker News got me thinking about something I see more and more often in real environments: we have more specialized roles, more products, more dashboards, more alerts, and more vendors than ever, yet a lot of teams still struggle with the same basic problems. Risk is not clearly prioritized. Tools are bought before the problem is fully understood. Security concerns are raised in language the business does not connect with. Incidents take too long to untangle because nobody has the full picture. That is not really a specialization problem. It is a context problem. I do not say that as someone who is anti-specialization. Cybersecurity is too broad now for everybody to be equally deep in every area. We need people who live in identity, cloud, networking, endpoint, vulnerability management, detection engineering, compliance, and incident response. That part is normal. The issue starts when…