What Kevin Bacon Can Teach You About Cybersecurity Careers

Systems Thinking, Not Tools, Increasingly Separates Senior Talent From Peers Brandy Harris • December 31, 2025

Most people remember the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. You start with any actor and, within a few moves, you can usually connect them to Kevin Bacon through shared films. The game is about pop culture trivia but the lesson was never really about movies. It was about networks, proximity and how quickly distance collapses once you trace relationships instead of assuming separation. That same logic applies cleanly to modern cybersecurity risk and to how careers advance in this industry specialty.

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