A Cybersecurity Architect is a person whose responsibility is for planning, designing,
testing, implementing and maintaining the security systems that protect an organization’s
computer and network infrastructure. They’re importance in the modern world comes from their
senior position and experience in knowing a lot about network infrastructure and security to
design a security system that would best protect the organization and effectively communicating
that method to stakeholders in a way that would allow them to implement a system over another.
This paper is to help further understand the roles and importance of a cybersecurity architect.
A cybersecurity architect’s role in understanding behaviors comes from a couple of
different ways, one of which comes from their experience with bad actors and hackings to come
up with a design for a network infrastructure that would most effectively combat a potential
hacker’s most common ways of infiltrating a system, constantly updating and maintaining the
system to constantly keep it from being attacked or messed with. Another way understanding the
human behaviors related to a cybersecurity architect comes with a professional’s role in helping
to communicate between stakeholders in their methods and likeminded employees who are
engineers and other IT roles to help implement and design the system itself.
A Security Architect utilized a lot of key concepts for their systems. One of which are
their understanding of research needed to learn about how a bad actor will behave in a unsecure
system and how they will infiltrate the system itself. They also implement within the field their
knowledge of different cybercrimes and methods and build systems to help defend from that
issue occurring. My goals are to become a cybersecurity architect so that I can learn about these
systems to help an organization and most importantly the community that would revolve around
it. This Career’s connection to society comes in the most important task of managing the entire
network system as a whole as without them the whole system would fall apart.
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