Cybersecurity architects are responsible for designing, developing and implementing the security systems that protect an organization’s information technology (IT) network.

Responsibilities

• Gaining a total understanding of the organization’s technology and information systems
• Planning, researching, and designing reliable, powerful, and flexible security architectures for all IT projects
• Performing vulnerability testing on the completed infrastructure, including risk analyses and security assessments
• Researching the latest security standards, new security systems, and updated authentication protocols
• Defining, creating, implementing, and maintaining all needed corporate security policies and procedures, making sure that all employees abide by them
• Developing requirements for all IT assets including routers, firewalls, local area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), virtual private networks (VPNs), and any other related network devices
• Reviewing and approving the installation of all firewalls, VPN, routers, servers, and IDS scanning technologies
• Preparing cost estimates for all cybersecurity measures and identifying any potential integration issues
• Designing critical public infrastructures (PKIs), including digital signatures and certification authorities (CA)
• Testing the organization’s final security structures to make sure they function as planned
• Providing technical guidance and supervision for security teams
• Taking charge of any security awareness programs and educational efforts to better prepare non-IT personnel
• Responding immediately to any security-related incidents (e.g., data breaches, viruses, phishing scams) and providing a complete post-event analysis once there is a resolution
• Updating and upgrading the organization’s security systems as needed