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.

Tannu Jiwnani is a principal security engineer at Microsoft, where she's worked for nearly eight years. Jiwnani emphasizes the importance of adaptability and quick response when working in ...

Platform engineering is the rising star of the operations firmament. But squint hard and you'll quickly see that the foundation of any serious platform engineering program is operational and ...