What is a security engineer for hire?
A security engineer plays a vital role in safeguarding your organization’s infrastructure against cyber threats by proactively managing and enhancing its security posture. Their responsibilities include:
- Conducting in-depth security code reviews.
- Performing security assessments of system architecture.
- Overseeing the security aspects of software development.
- Investigating and responding to security incidents.
- Prioritizing and managing vulnerability reports.
Typically, only larger enterprises have the resources to employ full-time security engineers. For smaller or growing organizations, it may not be feasible to have dedicated in-house security experts. That’s where hiring a part-time security engineer can be highly beneficial—allowing you to access top-tier expertise without the commitment of a full-time role.
By hiring a dedicated security engineer on a flexible basis, you bring an experienced expert into your team who will dive deep into your software and infrastructure, working to strengthen the security of your development lifecycle.
Ambaga offers a wide range of expertise in security engineering. Whether you are maintaining legacy on-premises software or modern cloud based applications Ambaga can provide an expert which complements and empowers any team.
How does it work?
Our experts will initially perform a short assessment where they familiarizes themselves with your infrastructure and architecture. After familiarizing themselves with your systems, they will compile a prioritized action plan to enhance the security of your software development processes.
Following this initial assessment, our experts will regularly meet with your team to review progress, offer advice, and ensure consistent improvements. In addition to that, as part of your retainer, your team will be given direct access to our experts for security review of pull requests, architecture or any other security-related issues your team needs to address.
Why is it relevant?
The most cost-effective way to secure software is by embedding security directly into the development process. By having a dedicated security expert as part of your team, you foster a security-conscious culture within your organization, significantly reducing the risk of breaches. As we like to say: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.