infosec-jobs.com (isecjobs) Shut Down: Where to Post and Find Cybersecurity Jobs Now

TL;DR: isecjobs.com - the board many people still knew by its original name, infosec-jobs.com - shut down on June 30, 2026, citing lower-than-expected demand. If you posted roles there, those listings and that channel are gone. If you searched for jobs there, your bookmark now leads nowhere. This guide covers what happened, what it means for both sides of the market, and the honest list of places to post and search now: generalist boards for volume, ClearanceJobs for cleared US roles, and specialist boards like ours for security-specific reach.

What happened to infosec-jobs.com / isecjobs?

infosec-jobs.com launched as a dedicated infosec job board and later rebranded to isecjobs.com. It aggregated security roles globally, published open salary data, and offered a paid API - a genuinely useful, security-only resource. On June 30, 2026, it shut down, with the operators citing lower-than-expected demand. That is the extent of what was announced publicly; we will not speculate beyond it.

It was not an isolated event. The niche cybersecurity job-board market consolidated hard through 2025-2026: NinjaJobs, the community-vetted infosec board that had run since 2013, was acquired in 2023 and its board now redirects to a recruiting agency, and CyberSN pivoted out of the board business into staffing and CISO software, keeping only a free board as lead generation. The field of dedicated cybersecurity job boards is much thinner than it was two years ago.

What this means if you are an employer who posted there

Three practical consequences:

• Your live listings are gone. Any posting that was running on isecjobs when it closed stopped reaching candidates. If a role is still open, it needs a new home now - an unfilled req quietly losing its main channel is how time-to-fill blows out without anyone noticing.
• Your inbound links are dead. If your careers page, ATS notes, or old job-ad copy link to isecjobs listings, those links now break. Worth a quick sweep.
• The audience did not disappear - the aggregator did. The security professionals who browsed isecjobs still exist and still change jobs. They have moved their searching to the surviving boards, to LinkedIn, and increasingly to AI assistants. Your job is to be where they went.

What this means if you are a candidate who searched there

The roles themselves did not vanish - isecjobs aggregated public postings from company career sites, and those companies are still hiring. What you lost is a security-only place to look. Your options now:

• A specialist board. This site does the same core job - security roles only, aggregated directly from the career sites of 250+ security companies, with direct apply links to the employer's own ATS (no middleman, no re-hosted application forms). Start at the live board or the remote cybersecurity jobs hub if location is your constraint.
• Generalist boards for volume. LinkedIn and Indeed carry far more total postings, mixed in with everything else. Useful as a second net, noisy as a primary one.
• ClearanceJobs if you hold a US clearance. For cleared work it remains the dedicated venue, and a specialist security board is the complement, not the substitute.

For the full candidate-side comparison of what survived the consolidation, see the best cybersecurity job boards in 2026.

The honest alternatives list for employers

No single board replaces isecjobs one-for-one, because boards sit at different points on the reach-versus-signal spectrum. Pricing language here is categorical on purpose - boards change rates constantly, so check current numbers before budgeting.

• LinkedIn / Indeed - maximum volume. The biggest audiences in hiring, including passive candidates who are not actively searching. The trade-offs for a security req: generalist noise (applicants from adjacent IT and unrelated fields), a pay-per-click or sponsored pricing model where cost scales with competition for attention, and a heavier screening burden on your team. Right choice when you want a large applicant pool and have the recruiting capacity to filter it.
• ClearanceJobs - cleared US roles. If the role requires an active US security clearance, post where cleared candidates concentrate. A specialist cybersecurity board complements it for the non-cleared portion of your pipeline.
• A specialist cybersecurity board - concentrated intent. This is the slot isecjobs occupied, and it is the slot we occupy: security professionals only, so a much higher share of applicants is actually relevant to a security req. Our board lists roles from 250+ security-focused companies with over 1,000 live openings, candidates apply directly into your ATS, every posting emits Google Jobs structured data, and a listing is a flat $299 for 30 days - no subscription, no per-click meter. One more channel isecjobs never had: AI assistants. When candidates ask ChatGPT and its peers where to find security jobs, specialist boards get cited and deep-linked, and ours is among the boards they cite - a growing share of our candidate traffic arrives that way.

The pattern that consistently works for hard-to-fill security roles is the two-board strategy: a generalist board for reach plus a specialist board for signal. The full reasoning is in where to post cybersecurity jobs in 2026.

Migration checklist for employers

If isecjobs was part of your hiring mix, work through this once and you are covered:

1. Inventory what was running there. List every role that was live on isecjobs at the shutdown. Confirm each is still open and still needs external reach.
2. Repost open roles to a replacement channel now. Do not let a req sit channel-less while the budget discussion happens - every week unposted is a week of zero pipeline from that source.
3. Fix dead links. Sweep your careers page, recruiting email templates, and social posts for isecjobs URLs.
4. Re-check your spend math. If isecjobs was your cheap specialist channel, compare replacements on cost per qualified applicant, not listing price. The cost-to-hire calculator puts the agency-versus-direct numbers side by side.
5. Update your job descriptions while you are at it. A repost is a free chance to fix the JD - tighten the must-haves, add a salary band, cut the boilerplate. Our JD template and guide covers the specifics.
6. Diversify so one shutdown cannot blank your pipeline again. The 2025-2026 consolidation is the argument for running two channels with different failure modes: one generalist, one specialist.

Frequently asked questions

Why did infosec-jobs.com shut down?

The operators of isecjobs.com (formerly infosec-jobs.com) closed the board on June 30, 2026, citing lower-than-expected demand. That is the publicly stated reason; anything more specific would be speculation. It happened amid a broader consolidation of niche cybersecurity job boards through 2025-2026.

Where should I post a cybersecurity job now that isecjobs is gone?

Use the two-board strategy: a generalist board (LinkedIn or Indeed) for reach, plus a specialist cybersecurity board for concentrated security-candidate intent. For US roles requiring a clearance, add ClearanceJobs. Our board fills the specialist slot with a flat $299, 30-day listing and direct applies to your ATS.

Where do I search for security jobs now?

The roles isecjobs aggregated still exist on company career sites. A specialist board that aggregates them - like this one, covering 250+ security companies - restores the security-only view, and the new-this-week page is the fastest way to see what changed since your last visit.

The bottom line

A good specialist board closed, but the market it served did not. Employers: repost your open roles, fix the links, and rebuild the specialist half of your channel mix. Candidates: the security-only view of the market still exists - it just lives at a different address. Both halves of that answer start on the live board.