I am weighing on if enrolling into a certificate program for Cybersecurity would be worth it?

My hopeful endgame would be to get into Cybersecurity, but since that is a much more specific and technical branch of IT. And with no IT experience in a workplace, if perusing the cert would be a waste of time? Instead I am thinking of maybe doing an Associate for Information Technology, get a position hopefully and then branch into security?

My employer is paying for all of these programs anyways. My current background is no professional IT experience, got a CompTIA ITF certification. I know about some different “branches” of the industry on a general level such as cloud computing. I have not done any coding yet, but that is on my list particularly learning Python.