What is a cryptographer?

Cryptographers write and crack the encryption code used to protect data. In a cryptographer role, you will help to develop better algorithms to help protect data from threats. Depending on the organization you work with, your day-to-day work will vary, but you will be protecting critical data from being stolen, deleted, altered, or copied. Cryptographers also help to develop mathematical and statistical models that can help organizations locate and disrupt threats to their systems.

Some of your day-to-day work as a cryptographer will include identifying weaknesses in existing cryptography systems and identifying ways to better secure them, conducting testing of cryptology theories, improving data security across the organization, deploying symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, managing the organization's encryption implementation especially as it relates to code and third-party products, conducting training of other departments to help them implement...