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>I don't work in or near a big city and would probably have to work remotely

The specializations are both conducive to remote work. However, they aren't conducive to remote work for people that don't have a good amount of experience in that role.

You can definitely make the switch to either of those things, but you have a long road ahead. If you know specifically what sub-field of security interests you, I might be able to give you some more insight.

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I am actually in a similar boat. I have done a lot of java work, and was active on the security side of things in my previous role. I mostly worked on compliance, but I did some pen testing.

I can see compliance not being friendly to remote where pen testing would be a lot more friendly.

I know security is a big field, but I would love to hear any insight that you have on it.

I found this website pretty helpful for investigating a career path change to cyber security and it contains information about more specific jobs within the cyber security field. http://www.cyberdegrees.org/jobs/

I guess I have a couple of interests ... developing secure code & architectures as well as hacking/defending against hackers (ethical hacking).

From some of the job descriptions in the link above, things like: Penetration Tester (ethical hacking), Security Analyst / Security Auditor, Forensics Expert

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