Torre Williams
Professor Kirkpatrick
CYSE-200
10 February 2019
What role do engineers have in managing cyber risks?
In the engineering world, some of the issues they tend to face due to the increase of cyber risk are to successively assess the risk effectively and make the appropriate investment to manage the risk as low as possible. As a result, IT and Engineers are called to work together with a common language that both can operate under on the same page to get the job done effectively.
To assess a cyber risk, the engineering community may use what is called a Risk Assessment
Methodology and a Bow- Tie Model. The Bow-Tie Model is a model that evaluates all hazards that could result as a top event. Also, as well as evaluating hazardous events, it can also be translated into cyber risks by considering all the current threats landscape. The Risk Assessment
Methodology Model conducts cyber risk management by running through the Bow-Tie Model. The way that the Bow-Tie Model will evaluate hazardous events, it will do the same thing for conducting cyber risk management. Though you have these models to help manage these cyber risks, you have a specialized engineer that focuses on systems that deal with disruptions such as natural disasters and cyber-attacks. This type of special engineer is a Security Engineer. They also ensure that hardware, software, and malware, etc… are running properly, and tries to look for possible issues that could arise in the future. They are responsible for testing, screening, and monitoring security software and networks for any intrusions or breaches. Not only do these engineers know how to point out any threats but also know the necessary steps to prepare themselves so that no threats happen.
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