From cyber incident responder to cybersecurity risk manager
12 of the 22 essential skills of a cybersecurity risk manager are already essential for a cyber incident responder — about 55% 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.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 10
- would be new
- 55%
- of the target job covered
- 22
- essential skills of a cybersecurity risk manager
What a cybersecurity risk manager does
Cybersecurity risk managers identify, analyse, assess, estimate and mitigate cybersecurity-related risks of ICT infrastructures such as systems or services. They manage these aspects by planning risk analysis, applying, reporting, assessing, communicating, and treating them. They establish a risk management strategy for the organisation and ensure that risks remain at an acceptable level for the organisation by selecting mitigation actions and controls.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
10 skillsEssential for a cybersecurity risk manager and not for a cyber incident responder. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- advice on security risk management
- assessment of risks and threats
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- establish an Information Security Management System
- ICT performance analysis methods
- implement ICT risk management
- information security strategy
- internal risk management policy
- manage system security
Other moves from cyber incident responder
2 roles- chief ICT security officer12 skills in common
- digital forensics expert11 skills in common
← cyber incident respondercybersecurity risk manager →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a cybersecurity risk manager?
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.