Security principles
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Applies threat, risk, least-privilege, and defense-in-depth models.
Course coverage
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- Course planned (1)
Security
Security Engineer
Designs and implements controls that reduce risk across infrastructure, applications, identities, and cloud environments.
- Skills
- 8
- Published coverage
- 3
- Awaiting publication
- 5
Skills
Security foundations
Threat modeling
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Identifies trust boundaries, abuse cases, and proportionate mitigations.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
Security architecture
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Designs controls as coherent parts of system architecture.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
Identity and access
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Engineers authentication, authorization, secrets, and privileged access.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
Engineering domains
Network security
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Protects network boundaries, flows, and services.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
Application security
Importance: Essential (5 of 5)
Integrates secure design, coding, testing, and dependency controls.
Course coverage
Cloud security
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Applies cloud identity, workload, data, and configuration controls.
Course coverage
Security operations
Importance: Very important (4 of 5)
Uses detection and incident response to contain active threats.
Course coverage
- Course planned (1)
Relevant courses
Core foundations
- Application Security Fundamentals
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals
- Courses planned (5)
Supporting knowledge
- Cloud Security
- Course planned (1)