Security Engineer Career Path

Security Engineers are security-minded architects and builders. They are responsible for planning and implementing security controls throughout an IT environment. This career path is designed to provide you with foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an entry-level Security Engineer. In this path, you will learn Security Engineering Fundamentals, Infrastructure Security, Application Security, and Data Security.

Completing this career path and the associated Assessments will prepare you for pursuing a career as a Security Engineer and further specializing in advanced skills like Cloud Security and Cybersecurity Architecture.

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Purpose Statement

Cybrary Career Paths are comprehensive training programs designed to prepare you for the most in-demand roles in the cybersecurity workforce. Each path follows a Learn, Practice, Prove model and includes different activity types aligned to key topics within the path’s security domain. As you progress through the path, your progress will be measured in real time using Experience Points (XP) that serve as a comprehensive capability score for each topic. Upon completing all of the requirements for a path, you will be rewarded with a shareable digital badge via Credly.

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Overview

Security Engineers are security-minded architects and builders. They are responsible for planning and implementing security controls throughout an IT environment. This career path is designed to provide you with foundational knowledge and key skills required to succeed as an entry-level Security Engineer. Upon completing the career path, you will earn a Credly digital badge that will demonstrate to employers that you’re ready for the job.

Over the course of 20 courses and hands-on virtual labs, you will learn Security Engineering Fundamentals, Infrastructure Security, Application Security, and Data Security.

Learn, Practice, Prove - Develop and refine new skills across a complete curriculum composed of Courses, Labs, Challenges, and Assessments.

Get Hands-On - Learn by doing with live operating systems and real security tools in our on-demand lab environment.

Measure Your Progress - Track your skills development from lesson to lesson using the Cybrary Skills Tracker.

Share Your Achievements - Show the world you're prepared for the job with milestone badges from Cybrary and a digital credential from Credly for completing the entire path.

Connect with the Community - Have questions? Connect with a community of peers and experts in our Forums and Discord Community.

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Who is this for?

This career path is designed for learners with prior experience in cybersecurity, who wish to translate that experience into building secure IT ecosystems. This includes current mid-career IT and security practitioners looking to transition into a Security Engineer role. Experienced security engineering practitioners will also benefit from reviewing core concepts and testing their skills in this path's Challenge and Assessment modules.

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Topics

Security Engineering Fundamentals - Learn the foundational theory and core functions of Security Engineering. This topic will cover Security Engineering and Cyber Risk, Security Engineering Operations, DevSecOps, Zero-Trust Architecture, and Threat Modeling.

Infrastructure Security - Infrastructure Security encompasses security controls implemented at the network and host level. This topic will cover the basics of infrastructure security, as well as SOAR, Email DLP, Next-Gen Firewalls, and Virtualization Security.

Application Security - Application Security encompasses security controls implemented at the application level. This topic will cover the basics of application security, as well as static and dynamic code analysis, secure coding best practices, API security, and vulnerability prioritization.

Data Security - Data Security encompasses security controls implemented at the data level. This topic will cover data security basics, data masking and obfuscation, database security, data loss prevention, data classification and access, secure data storage and transmission, and file integrity monitoring.

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Foundations

Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.

Defensive Security

Focused on trying to find the bad guys. Topics such as threat intelligence, threat hunting, network monitoring, incident response. Defensive security is a reactive measure taken once a vulnerability is found through prevention, detection, and response.

Engineering and Operations

Focused on building and operating information systems.

Governance, Risk, and Compliance

Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.

Leadership and Management

Focused on program design and oversight. Covers project and program management.

Offensive Security

Focused on validating security controls by trying to break them (i.e. penetration testing or ethical hacking). Topics such as Kali Linux, metasploit, scanning, and privilege escalation. Offensive security seeks out the problem or vulnerability through ethical hacking and finds a solution to disable the operation.

Offensive Security

Focused on the core IT competencies that cybersecurity professionals need to succeed in any career path.

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Infrastructure Security

From a threat landscape overview to applying defense-in-depth at the perimeter, network, endpoint, application, and data layers, this Infrastructure Security course covers it all. Network engineers, systems engineers, and security managers will walk away with a thorough understanding of how to apply these concepts to lock down their infrastructure.

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