Whether it is mechanical, electrical, software, security, or otherwise, engineering is engineering is engineering. It’s all just problem solving under various different constraints. As an engineer, it is my job to know the best tools and techniques to overcome those different constraints. Sometimes, it means making my own tools rather than using off the shelf solutions. But at the end of the day, there is nothing inherently special about cybersecurity engineering than there is any other type of engineering out there.
For the last year or so, I’ve been working as a physical security engineer. And, believe it or not, it was actually my educational background in cybersecurity that qualified me for the job. Why? Because security engineering for the physical world and security engineering in cyber space extremely similar.