Cyber security engineers identify threats and vulnerabilities in systems and software, they then apply their skills to develop and implement high tech solutions to defend hacking, malware etc. They perform assessments and penetration testing. Becoming a cyber security engineer comes with a lot of responsibilities. Troubleshooting security and network security, testing and identifying network and system vulnerabilities, and responding to all system and or network security breaches are all responsibilities of an engineer. Engineers make networks safer by creating new networks. “Cyber engineers incorporate electrical engineering and computer science to understand cyberspace and use skills developed in digital forensics, security police and network defense to perform cyber security tasks, as well as work on engineering hardware and software.” Engineers track all attacks on the networks, by tracking the attacks they can make improvements. Cyber engineers are very important in the cyber security workforce. Cyber attacks are an assault launched by cyber criminals using one or more computers against a single or multiple computers or networks. Attacks happen quite often especially in America, in 2020 there were 2,200 attacks happening each day. That is about 1 cyber attack every 39 seconds. In an article I read about cyber attacks it stated in September of 2020 saw 9 million medical records stolen. 

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Moore, Michelle. Should You Become a Cyber security. https://onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu/should-you-become-a-cyber-security-engineer/

College of Science and Engineering. https://hbu.edu/science-and-engineering/degree-programs/ug-major-cyber-engineering-bs/what-does-a-cyber-security-engineer do/#:~:text=Cybersecurity%20engineers%2C%20Cybrary%20says%2C%20are,implementation%20of%20secure%20network%20solutions

Fox, Jacob. (2021). Cybersecurity Statistics for 2021. https://cobalt.io/blog/cybersecurity-statistics-2021#:~:text=How%20many%20cyberattacks%20per%20day,1%20cyberattack%20every%2039%20seconds.