Practical Internet of Things Security - Second Edition

Privacy-engineering professionals

For all of the departments involved, the role of the privacy engineer is to understand and participate in both the policy and technical life cycle of privacy management and implementation. Privacy engineering, a relatively new discipline, requires a different capability set than what is typically found in a single corporate department. We suggest the following attributes for individuals performing privacy engineering:

• They are engineers, preferably ones with a security background. Lawyers and nontechnical privacy professionals can and should be available for reference and consulting, but privacy engineering itself is an engineering discipline.
• They ideally have privacy-related qualifications, such as an  ...