EXPLORE A CAREER AREA

Cybersecurity

Help protect systems, investigate threats, and reduce risk.

SOC roles emphasize monitoring and investigation. Penetration testing requires authorized testing skills; application security often builds on software engineering experience.

Roles in Cybersecurity

  1. Junior Cybersecurity Analyst

    A junior cybersecurity analyst helps identify risks and check whether basic security controls are working.

  2. SOC Analyst

    A security operations centre (SOC) analyst reviews alerts and logs to decide what needs investigation or escalation.

  3. Security Analyst

    A security analyst evaluates evidence about threats, vulnerabilities, and controls to help an organisation reduce risk.

  4. Penetration Tester

    A penetration tester assesses the security of systems within an explicitly authorised scope.

  5. Application Security Engineer

    An application security engineer helps development teams prevent, find, and fix weaknesses in software.

  6. Information Security Analyst

    An information security analyst helps protect information and the processes used to handle it.

  7. Security Engineer

    A security engineer designs, implements, and maintains controls that protect systems.

Common skills & technologies

Networking · Linux · Log analysis · Clear reporting

Preferred, depending on role: SIEM tooling, Scripting, Threat modeling.

A project to start with

Analyze synthetic authentication logs and write an incident report.

Document your decisions, test your work, and explain what you would improve.

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