Security engineering

Security is such a huge concern in the IoT market. High-profile data breaches have heightened consumers' awareness of data security and privacy issues that may occur if a connected device is breached or hacked and data exposed, Johnson says. "To help mitigate against potential risks, companies are investing in security engineering to conduct in-depth assessments to identify both physical and logical secured threats to embedded systems such as local controllers/gateways and determine the risk at the device level. We're seeing strong demand for professionals with security analysis and vulnerability assessment experience," Johnson says.