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The security engineer of the twenty-first century will be responsible for systems that evolve constantly and face a changing spectrum of threats. She will have a large and constantly growing toolbox.
A significant part of her job will be keeping up to date
technically: understanding the latest attacks, learning how to use new tools, and keeping up on the legal and policy fronts. Like any engineer, she'll need a solid intellectual foundation; she will have to understand the core disciplines such as cryptology, access control, information flow, networking and signal detection. She'll also need to understand the basics of management: how accounts work, the principles of finance and the business processes of her client. But most important of all will be the ability to manage technology and play an effective part in the process of evolving a system to meet changing business needs.
The ability to communicate with business people, rather than just with other engineers, will be vital; and experience will matter hugely.
I don't think anybody with this combination of skills is likely to be unemployed—or bored—anytime soon.
(R.Anderson Security Engineering, John Wiley & Son)
