Cybersecurity - Architect vs Engineer vs Analyst

Cybersecurity Architect - One who decides how security is done and has holistic view of an organization's architecture (Expert in multiple domains)

For e.g. One who knows where firewall, AV, SIEM, VM, IDS/IPS, proxy, DLP etc. should be placed. Decides what policies should govern operation of aforementioned tools.

--> More involved in decision making

Cybersecurity Engineer - One who follows a given design and builds/engineers solutions.

For e.g. One who actually deploys and maintains (Deploy/Configure/Upgrade/Troubleshoot/Decommission) above mentioned solutions. 

--> More involved in implementation

Cybersecurity Analyst - One who uses data generated by these solutions to ensure cybersecurity. Provides feedback and reports issues to engineers based on which engineers finetune solutions.

For e.g. One who works on dashboards, alerts, incidents, reports etc. generated by above mentioned cybersecurity solutions.

--> More involved in analysis

Each role has its challenges, hence one should not reach to immediate conclusion about betterness of these roles over one another.

 

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