Who is a Cloud Security Engineer?

The cloud is a collection of servers that can be accessed over the internet. Poor security could make computing resources and customers’ data susceptible to cyber-attacks. Designing processes that improve security on the cloud is for our long-term benefit.

The role of a cloud security engineer is to provide and continuously improve security for cloud applications. So, the cloud security engineer contributes to creating methodologies that protect the systems, networks, and data from cyber-attacks.

An analogy from a real-world scenario

Imagine there was a bucket of water in the corridor of our apartment and that water is supposed to be for us and our housemate alone. We and our housemate go to fetch water when we need it, but somehow, other people outside of the apartment come to take water from that bucket, and we’re not aware of this until a day that someone pours a dirty substance into the bucket making it unfit for us and our housemate to use.

A good way to ensure that the water was secure would have been to create a lockable tap and only give keys to the apartment residents.