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Cybersecurity career: Engineer

Cybersecurity career: Engineer

From the course: Cybersecurity Careers and Certifications

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Cybersecurity career: Engineer

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- [Instructor] Cybersecurity engineers are technical experts who build security systems and tackle complex security problems. They're the ones who install, configure and troubleshoot firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and other security infrastructure. Cybersecurity engineers also develop new technical solutions and security tools to solve existing production security issues. Common job titles for this role include cybersecurity engineer, IT security engineer, network security engineer, information assurance engineer, and information systems security engineer. Cybersecurity engineers are expected to have very strong technical skills. This usually isn't a problem for engineers because most are so passionate about IT and security technology that they consider it fun and like to play with home networks in their spare time. Security engineers will need to know a wide range of technologies and processes. Depending on the…

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