A professional who plans, coordinates, and implements security measures to safeguard information in computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure. Responsibilities include:

• Confers with computer user department personnel and computer programmer to plan data security for new or modified software, discussing issues, such as employee data access needs and risk of data loss or disclosure.
• Reviews plan to ensure compatibility of planned security measures with establishment computer security system software.
• Modifies security data files to incorporate new software security into establishment security software, using computer terminal, or meets with systems programmer to request needed programming changes.
• Enters commands into computer in attempt to circumvent new security measures to test system.
• Reviews employee violations of computer security procedures recorded by computer and reports violations to user department managers or talks with employee to ensure that violation is not repeated.
• Coordinates implementation of vendor-issued security software update.
• Develops and writes computer security department policies and procedures.
• May assign computer access passwords to employees (computer security specialist ).
• May develop, coordinate implementation of, and test plan to continue establishment data processing activities at off-site location in case of emergency, such as fire, at main site (data recovery planner ).