What does an information security engineer need to know?

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Programming languages

Hi people. I'm 14, I want to get into the IT field, in particular, in information security. There are computer science lessons at school, but it's hard to call it computer science. I myself started to learn Python and kali linux not long ago. So, knowledge consists in fixing computers, the ability to code for arduino and the passage of "Watch dogs" :) I want to ask a question. What does an information security engineer need to know? (Yes, I understand that there are different specialties. But there is probably some kind of knowledge that everyone who studies information security should master?)

Answer 1

What is an IS engineer in your opinion?
Write security guidelines for companies? - to you on legal.
Or do you want to write security products? - just learn programming.
Or you want to become an integrator of security systems - you need electronics.
Dig into the current job market, look at the requirements of those vacancies that interest you.

Answer 2

Initially - you need to know the theoretical part!
Because without knowledge of theory, practice is absolutely useless.
Google "information security"