Security Architect

6 CAREER PROGRESSION AND RELATED ROLES

How can budding security architects see their skills and experience develop as part of an overall career progression, and how does the role interact with others? It is improbable that a security architect will come to the position ‘cold’, with no prior experience – indeed, much information security knowledge is common to multiple roles. Given how the security architect role brings together security and IT architecture, it is more likely that it will either involve a security professional who now needs to take a more architectural view, or an IT architect who is having to consider security aspects of the technology environment. The security architect will in general previously have been an IT or security ...