The reality? Security is always optional. Always. It shouldn't be, but it is. Barring some major compliance requirement imposed by force of law and jailtime for failure to comply, the big corpos will always cut cybersecurity when things get tough before anything else. So cybersecurity isn't even a very stable job. You are going to get laid off at some point. In fact, there have been quite a few cybersecurity layoffs in the last year.