Security Engineering: Asset Evaluation and Execution Plan

This course explores the role of the security engineer, beginning with a comprehensive approach to asset inventory, moving into identifying and managing IT assets, and finishing with crafting actionable execution plans to secure those assets. A running case study — Globomantics, an organization that has just acquired several small defense-manufacturing firms — is used throughout to ground each concept in a realistic, end-to-end scenario: from understanding what a security engineer does, to inventorying the newly acquired IT estate, to building and presenting a plan that secures it.

In short: the architect lays the foundation for the organization's overall security architecture and planning; security engineers design, implement, and maintain the various security controls, tools, and solutions; and security analysts leverage those controls to perform their day-to-day tasks such as event investigation and incident response.