Information Systems Security Engineer Roles
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5 hours 58 minutes
Difficulty
Intermediate
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>> Welcome back to Cybrary's course,
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I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes.
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Let's talk about information
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system security engineer roles.
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In this lesson, we're
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going to look at potential roles you can
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hold once you achieve the ISSEP concentration.
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Then we're going to look at
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an example ISSEP job posting because they're out there.
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If you're interested in
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doing this kind of work in this floats your boat,
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you probably should know what to look for.
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Potential is abroad. Well obviously,
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you could be a Senior Systems Engineer.
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This is a Systems Engineering concentration.
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You want to get this concentration
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to hopefully become a systems engineer
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for information security.
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You could be on the assurance side.
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Information assurance still exists.
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We sometimes forget about
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the fact that we have to secure our data.
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This is one of the biggest problems we
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see in the industry today
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because so many breaches are about Cloud problems.
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Really when I say Cloud problems,
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these are misconfigurations where somebody
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left an S3 bucket exposed from say,
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Amazon Web Services or pick a storage solution Azure,
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Google Cloud, IBM has got it, Oracle.
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Any Cloud solution that you're using,
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you have to assure and make sure
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that you are actually configuring those correct.
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That's what ISSEPs do.
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They go back and look at
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all the requirements for securing
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data on the information assurance side
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and they help to do that.
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You could be an analyst,
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you could be looking at security analysts as
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senior security analysts' role
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in information assurance analyst.
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Those analysts' roles are great
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because they allow you to get into the meat and
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potatoes and the nuggets of
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the security controls for both data
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and actual systems security
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from a defense in-depth perspective.
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You definitely want to look at
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all these different potential roles
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and where this fits in because
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demonstrating subject matter expertise as
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a Information Systems Security Engineer is a really rare.
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There's not a lot of ISSEPs out there and you definitely
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are showing a great skill
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set by achieving this concentration.
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Here's an actual job listing for an ISSE,
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an Information System Security Engineer.
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I would like to note a couple of things here.
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One, it's great because here's what a job looks like.
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Here's the things that you would do.
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If you notice security planning,
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assessment, risk analysis, risk management,
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all of the stuff we've talked about in
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the ISSEP domains are literally
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listed in this particular job posting,
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which is really unique.
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You'll note that this is dealing
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with requirements and needs statements.
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We're going to talk a lot about
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needs statements when we get to
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the SE process module
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for the Department of Defense
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and the Intelligence Community.
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Obviously, this is related
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to the US federal government and that's okay.
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But you're starting to see
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these types of job postings available in industry because
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folks realize that
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systems engineering and information systems,
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security engineering in particular is
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not just a thing that we do in the government,
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it is also stuff that we need to do at
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a top-level to build secure systems.
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The Internet today from
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a business perspective is reputation-based.
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If you continually get breached,
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people aren't going to buy your product.
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It's pretty straightforward, but this is again,
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an idea of an actual job posting.
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The other thing I'll note on here is that a lot
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of times ISSE tend to have a lot of experience.
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If you don't have a lot of experience, that's okay.
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You are obviously going to continue to
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grow in this field if you're here
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taking this course from cyber,
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and this is a great place to get started.
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What did we cover in this lesson?
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We reviewed potential roles you could hold with
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an ISSEP concentration or do
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as an Associate Information System Security Engineer.
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Then we looked at an example
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ISSEP-related or SE-related job posting so that you
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get a feel for what kind
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of jobs you might be applying for
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after you achieve this concentration.
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We'll see you next time.
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