Information Security Engineers
Military experience making security determinations, validating vulnerability mitigations, and integrating cybersecurity into engineering transfers directly to assessing security controls and protecting systems.
How to prepare: Build a Linux lab and document a security assessment that identifies a vulnerability, tests a mitigation, and evaluates the resulting security control.
What the civilian work involves
- Coordinate monitoring of networks or systems for security breaches or intrusions.
- Assess the quality of security controls, using performance indicators.
- Scan networks, using vulnerability assessment tools to identify vulnerabilities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Linux
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft PowerShell