Responsibilities: Focus on designing encryption algorithms, cryptographic protocols, and ensuring that data remains secure from unauthorized access. Workplaces: Government agencies, tech companies, financial institutions, and research labs.

Responsibilities: Focuses on breaking or decrypting codes and identifying weaknesses in cryptographic systems, essentially working to understand how cryptographic security can be bypassed. Workplaces: Intelligence agencies, cybersecurity firms, academic institutions, and research labs.

Responsibilities: Develops and enforces security measures to protect an organization's systems, applications, and networks. They work on securing software and respond to security incidents. Workplaces: Tech companies, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations.

Responsibilities: Monitors and analyzes network activity to detect security breaches, investigate incidents, and implement necessary measures to prevent security failures. Workplaces: Corporations, government agencies, and consulting firms.

Responsibilities: Designs and oversees security infrastructures, develops policies, and evaluates security tools and solutions to protect the organization. Workplaces: Large enterprises, tech companies, and government agencies.

Responsibilities: Advises organizations on security best practices, audits current security systems, and recommends solutions to improve security and protect against threats. Workplaces: Consulting firms, freelance, or in various industries that require security expertise.

Responsibilities: Designs and develops software that incorporates cryptographic techniques, ensuring the application of best security practices in the development process. Workplaces: Software companies, tech startups, financial institutions.

Responsibilities: Works on the development of blockchain-based systems, including designing consensus protocols and ensuring the security of blockchain transactions. Workplaces: Fintech companies, tech startups, research institutions.

Responsibilities: Engages in academic or applied research on new cryptographic methods and algorithms, contributing to the advancement of the field. Workplaces: Universities, research institutions, tech companies.

Responsibilities: Oversees an organization’s cybersecurity strategy, manages the security team, and ensures that the organization adheres to security policies and regulations. Workplaces: Large corporations, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations.

Responsibilities: Actively tests and tries to exploit vulnerabilities in systems in a controlled manner to identify weaknesses and provide advice for improving security measures. Workplaces: Cybersecurity firms, consulting companies, or large organizations.

Responsibilities: Investigates and analyzes digital evidence from cybercrimes, recovering data and providing legal testimony regarding findings. Workplaces: Law enforcement agencies, private cybersecurity firms, legal firms.