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Security Engineer

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Last Updated February 17, 2019

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What Does a Security Engineer Do?

Security Engineers provide expertise around the systems and processes needed to maintain the security of information. Their work serves to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of an organization’s systems and application data. They integrate themselves into the organization and determine security requirements, plan/implement/test security systems, and establish best practices across the organization.

Key Traits of a Security Engineer

Perceptive

A Security Engineer must be perceptive and know what to protect. They must be able to understand how a threat might try to exploit vulnerabilities.

Well-Rounded

Security Engineers must possess both technical skill and the ability to communicate security threats to non-technical stakeholders

Attentive to Detail

With external threats evolving quickly, Security Engineers must be able to work quickly and with attention to detail, making sure not to further compromise company systems.

Resilient

Security threats are constantly changing. Resiliency and curiosity are required to identify threats before they become a reality.

Day-to-Day Expectations and Responsibilities

Build and maintain the automated systems that test for front- and back-end security vulnerabilities

Develop and evangelize security best practices across the organization

Implement physical protection mechanisms such as firewalls and VPN tunnels

Configure monitoring for key systems daily to verify the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, and critical processes

Review system and application logs, verifying completion of critical scheduled jobs such as backups.

Repair and recover from hardware or software failures, coordinating and communicating with impacted teams.

Security Engineer Officer Target Skill Set

Technical Skill Set:

Data encryption and key management
Cloud-native and cloud authentication mechanisms
Cloud governance tools
Firewall tools
Networking hardware and software tools
Identity, security, and access management tools
Application security, data protection, and cryptography

Non-Technical Skill Set:

Critical thinking and problem solving capabilities
Ability to communicate and listen to needs from organizational stakeholders

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Starter Training Plan for Security Engineers

The following Cloud Academy starter Training Plans prepare professionals to become Security Engineers

Amazon Web Services

Security Engineer

30 weeks

AWS Security Services

9 4 1

This Learning Path has been designed to introduce you to many of the different AWS Security services that are available to help you implement varied levels of security within your AWS environment.

AWS Auditing & Monitoring

6 3 1

This AWS Auditing & Monitoring Learning Path will show you how to Audit and Monitor your AWS infrastructure using a number of different AWS services specifically designed for this very purpose.

Security - Specialty Certification Preparation for AWS

22 11 1

This Learning Path is ideal for anyone interested in learning to recognize, explain, and implement solutions to enforce strict security controls across all levels of AWS infrastructure deployments.

Training Plans ensure accountability across your teams when it comes to AWS training.

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Microsoft Azure

Security Engineer

4 weeks

Azure Services for Security Engineers

3 3

This Learning Path will teach you how to take advantage of Azure security features and services to to enable strong security practices in your organization and to protect and secure your own cloud applications.

Training Plans ensure accountability across your teams when it comes to Microsoft Azure training.

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Industry Certification(s) for Security Engineers

The following industry certifications are popular among Security Engineers:

170 minutes, 65 questions

AWS Certified Security - Specialty

The AWS Certified Security Specialty allows experienced cloud security professionals to demonstrate and validate their knowledge of how to secure the AWS platform. (Source: AWS)

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Microsoft AZ-101 Exam: Microsoft Azure Integration and Security

Candidates for this exam are Azure Administrators who manage cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities. Candidates have a deep understanding of each service across the full IT lifecycle, and take requests for infrastructure services, applications, and environments. (Source: Microsoft)

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What separates us is our operational mindset. No matter what we are trying to develop, my team must focus on effectiveness, efficiency, and security. You’ll notice that in that list, security comes third and that’s because we view ourselves as problem solvers first. Our goal at the end of the day is to integrate security into the equation -- not force ourselves into the conversation after the fact.

- John Visneski

Head of Security at Pokémon

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