Who is an Information Security Specialist?

Question

IT education

Hello. I study in one of the Moscow universities, the name of the specialty is "Information security of telecommunication systems".
I am finishing my second course. But I still can't imagine what the future holds for me. We study physics, electrical circuits, radio signals, antennas, circuitry. Also a very large number of humanitarian subjects. And what of all this is actually important for an information security specialist?
I apologize if I somehow incorrectly asked the question. I'll be happy to clarify any detail if needed.

Answer 1

In the first two courses in the direct specialty, they tell very little everywhere, because. general engineering training is underway. Your task is to stupidly pump your brain on the hardest of these, while it is as flexible as possible (even at 25 it will be more difficult than at 18, believe me). Is the teacher lying? We are looking for a good textbook and fuck off. On the labs, they let you write an RPN calculator in BASIC? Well, OK, we do it for show and in the time saved we write it in ARM assembler instead. Etc.
There is a problem in technical information security - in order to honestly engage in the protection of any technology stack, you need to understand how it works at all levels , from the user interface to holes with electrons in a semiconductor. This understanding fits into one average person very badly and with gaps, but what to do, such is life.
How else will you honestly solve, for example, the task of protecting a room with the same telecommunications equipment from PEMIN (TEMPEST in English), without knowing the physical foundations ( and at least why a twisted pair is twisted inside a braid, and with what step it should be interlaced ).
But how to assess the quality of teaching in your particular case, and what strategy and tactics of teaching you should choose - this is a completely separate question, to which no one will give a ready answer.

Answer 2

Let me speak as a "non-IS specialist" (I work as a personnel manager in an IT company, but I have some kind of "computer" education).
All those things that you are taught - will be useful to you in your work, because. will allow to master applied knowledge with much greater speed. An information security specialist who knows physics and radio electronics will understand the OSI model from the 1st level, and not from the 7th. Knowledge of legislation, jurisprudence (if we refer to the humanities) and the Russian language will bring huge profits when working with regulatory documents and communications with government agencies. And it will allow you to communicate in the same conceptual space with more experienced colleagues, incl. from other areas of information security.
Foreign language - I think everything is clear here. Organization and production management - will give you theoretical knowledge of how the organization you are likely to get into works, and will allow you to more clearly understand the relationship of different processes around and your place among them.
In general, I will join the answer above: while the brain is young, put as much as possible into it, it will master it all. Even if now the usefulness of some disciplines is not obvious to you, you will understand it in a year or two, when this knowledge will help you in real work.