What is a security engineer? A security engineer is a cybersecurity professional who helps develop and implement strategies and systems to protect their organization’s infrastructure from cyberattacks ...

Credit: Brayden George modified by IDG Comm. Security teams are comprised primarily of operations, compliance, and policy-related roles. Security engineering teams, on the other hand, are builders.

For server administrators, installing software updates and security patches is a critical part of the job. But it’s also expensive and disruptive when a server must be rebooted to activate the update.