Duties of a Cyber Security Engineer

A general cyber security engineer will often be required to:

• Assess the effectiveness of firewalls, intrusions detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, honey pots, cryptography setups, and other security systems
• Configure and maintain routers, switches, virtual private networks, along with their software platforms
• Deploy and implement Security Information and Event Management systems
• Take responsibility of modifying, updating, or upgrading security platforms if changed take place
• Perform risk assessments by going through the process of asset reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, and vulnerability mapping to respond to threats and notify senior level positions of any significant information
• Design breach mitigation strategies along with offensive vulnerability assessments
• Develop customised security tools and script to meet the organization’s security needs.
• Coordinate and supervise third party penetration testing operations
• Be in charge of regulatory compliance projects and walk the organization through each technical and non-technical step
• Review and prepare technical analyses, reports, change proposals, and other necessary technical documentation
• Work closely with security managers and architects to achieve and carry out security programs in every little detail
• Work on security team accomplishments by operationally managing security measures which includes answering technical and procedural questions of other team members
• Devise and implement physical security systems such as access control devices, surveillance systems, and intrusion detectors
• Define processes for data retrieval, management, normalization, and transformation
• Research and recommend new and automated approaches to simplify complex security tasks