u/Eastern-Place3218

Finally broke into cybersecurity, but here’s the thing, I don’t have direct cybersecurity experience.

Quick background:

• 2 years IT Operations (mostly IT staff work, documentation, light tasks)
• 2 years Customer Service (credit cards + reservations)
• 2 years Service Desk (internal users, ticketing via ServiceNow)
• 2 years Major Incident Management (P1s, monitoring + alert triage)

Certs / prep:

• Fortinet NSE 1–3
• ISC2 Candidate
• ISO 27001:2022 Lead Auditor
• Some TryHackMe labs

So yeah… somehow I landed a cybersecurity role.

Out of curiosity, I checked my future teammates and most of them have CySA+, Security+, and actual cybersecurity experience. Not gonna lie it’s a bit intimidating.

Do you guys think I can realistically catch up and go on par with them? Any advice for someone in my position?

BTW the position is CyberSecurity L1.

Edit: Thank you so much guys for the advices, encouragements, and perspectives. Definitely helped me get out of my head a bit.