Every day our society constantly relies on our computers and other electronic devices we use every day and in our workplace. Our world constantly continues to revolve around computers and the hardware and software within it. With social media growing it has also become a potential security threat, because terrorist is able to reach internationally and impact any individual using social media, their email, and any other social media platform. This can also play a giant role in organizations if an internal employee uses their work computer for their personal online activities and can put their work system at risk for cyber threats. All organizations that have faulty software leaves the networks defenseless to any possible malware and cyber-attack. The engineers in IT security field help protect all the organizations computers, software, hardware, and also their networks from any potential security risk, and that also includes malware. Engineers in IT not only help with preventing any cyber-attacks, but they also help and overlook a company’s security foundation and infrastructure and help make any changes that need to be made to help improve in the prevention of any possible cyber threats in the cyber security department. With the increasing risk in cyber security it is important for the IT engineers to develop a safe and secure environment for the organization. There are many requirements for the engineers to have, they must be able to accurately troubleshoot, identify the problem and threat, and be able to successfully provide proper solutions for the organizations network and systems. Also monitor systems, installing fitting software, reporting findings, planning and strategizing, education and training, and improving any technical systems. The engineer’s main primary objective is to protect all networks and computer systems and monitoring all systems. When cyber-attacks are not present, they are able to keep busy with the other day to day task available. Engineers in the IT department have many different titles like application security engineers, web security engineers, IT security engineers, and data security engineers. But no matter the different title they are given they all play important roles in our cyber security world.

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