From the course: Introduction to SecOps on Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) by Google

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Introduction to security engineering

Introduction to security engineering

- [Instructor] Finally, let's look at the third tier three activity for your example SOC, security engineering. Security engineering is the systematic process that designs, implements, and maintains security controls in the SOC in order to safeguard the organization's infrastructure, systems, and applications. Security controls are defined as any specific measure or countermeasure that is put in place to protect an information system, network, application, or data from security threats and risks. Security engineering plays a critical role in fortifying an organization's security posture. By managing the SOC systems, security engineers ensure the efficiency and compliance of processes. At its core, security engineering is about managing security systems. First, the security engineer needs to gather the technical and business requirements that are behind the system design. Security engineers design, implement, test, and…

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