From chief ICT security officer to ethical hacker
14 of the 36 essential skills of a ethical hacker are already essential for a chief ICT security officer — about 39% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 22
- would be new
- 39%
- of the target job covered
- 36
- essential skills of a ethical hacker
What a ethical hacker does
Ethical hackers perform security vulnerability assessments and penetration tests in accordance with industry-accepted methods and protocols. They analyse systems for potential vulnerabilities that may result from improper system configuration, hardware or software flaws, or operational weaknesses.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- attack vectors
- communicate with stakeholders
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- engage with stakeholders
- ethical hacking principles
- ethics
- ICT network security risks
- ICT security standards
- identify ICT security risks
- implement ICT risk management
- information security strategy
- manage system security
- security engineering
What would be new
22 skillsEssential for a ethical hacker and not for a chief ICT security officer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- analyse the context of an organisation
- building systems monitoring technology
- computer forensics
- computer programming
- conduct ICT code review
- develop code exploits
- execute ICT audits
- execute social engineering tests
- execute software tests
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT system integration
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- legal requirements of ICT products
- monitor system performance
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- perform ICT security testing
- software anomalies
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- web application security threats
Other moves from chief ICT security officer
2 roles- cybersecurity risk manager20 skills in common
- digital forensics expert14 skills in common
← chief ICT security officerethical hacker →The other way round
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How far are you from being a ethical hacker?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.