What do doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, and cybersecurity professionals have in common?
The media commonly portrays and one will really only interact and think of 1 type of these professions. For example, one might typically associate lawyers with either traffic tickets or suing someone. However, there are more types of law to practice, such as medical malpractice, family law, constitutional law, and criminal law.
When someone says “accountant”, people think taxes because that’s how most people have interacted with their accountants. However there are many more types of accountants such as forensic accounting, insurance accounting, and much more.
There are other types of doctors and nurses, other than those who work on surgery. There are those specialized on children, specific organs such as the kidneys, and specific diseases.
The same goes for cybersecurity where people hear of hacking and just see media showing only hackers.
Cybersecurity is a complex industry made up of many different types of employees and backgrounds, which have roles that vary. This wide variety of roles include, but are not limited to the following.
| Role | Description |
| Cybersecurity Policy Experts | These experts help craft new policies and apply existing policy to cybersecurity situations in the environment |
| System Administration of Cybersecurity Products | These jobs are related to administering cybersecurity tools for the enterprise |
| Cybersecurity Sales | These individuals help sell and implement software for vendors |
| Incident Manager | These incident managers work for a SOC traditionally and help manage SOC incidents |
| Reverse Engineering | These employees help reverse engineer products or code for value, such as reverse engineering malware to help understand how the malware works. |
| Cybersecurity Automation | These roles focus on automating and building cybersecurity automation in the business and IT landscape |
| Malware Analysis | These roles analyze the most recent types of malware in the environment |
| Cybersecurity Engineer | They are generalists and help perform many cybersecurity tasks and functions. |
| Digital Forensics | A branch of forensic science that includes the recovery and investigation of material found in digital devices, often in relation to computer crime. |
| SOC analyst or security incident management | They help reply to security incidents and help manage these incidents. |
| CISO | They help focus cybersecurity directions for a company |
| Security auditor/assessor | They assess the environment from a security perspective and a focus on security. |
| Security Architects | They help architect the environment |
| Penetration Testers | These are the traditional hackers. There are blue teamers, who help improve the environment |
Previously, we have discussed that yes, you can infosec. What type of roles can be added to the list?
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