# Responsibilities of an Entry-Level Cybersecurity Job

## Security Analyst Responsibilities:

1. Protecting computer and network systems
2. Exercises to search for weaknesses (pen testing and ethical hacking)
3. Installing prevention software
4. Software and hardware development
5. Conducting periodic security audits

## Security Engineer Responsibilities:

1. Operations: Responding to detections and doing investigations
2. Projects: Working with other teams to build new detections or improve the current detections

#### Analysts more focused on operations, while an engineer can do operations, they are more focused on building detection and project-focused work.
