From cybersecurity risk manager to chief ICT security officer
20 of the 47 essential skills of a chief ICT security officer are already essential for a cybersecurity risk manager — about 43% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from cybersecurity risk manager in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 20
- skills carry over
- 27
- would be new
- 43%
- of the target job covered
- 47
- essential skills of a chief ICT security officer
What a chief ICT security officer does
Chief ICT security officers protect company and employee information against unauthorized access. They also define the Information System security policy, manage security deployment across all Information Systems and ensure the provision of information availability.
What carries over
20 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- advice on security risk management
- assessment of risks and threats
- attack vectors
- communicate with stakeholders
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- engage with stakeholders
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- establish an Information Security Management System
- ethical hacking principles
- ICT network security risks
- ICT safety
- ICT security standards
- implement ICT risk management
- information security strategy
- internal risk management policy
- manage system security
- risk management
- security engineering
What would be new
27 skillsEssential for a chief ICT security officer and not for a cybersecurity risk manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- audit techniques
- comply with legal regulations
- data protection
- decision support systems
- develop information security strategy
- educate on data confidentiality
- ensure compliance with legal requirements
- ensure cross-department cooperation
- ensure information privacy
- ethics
- forecast organisational risks
- ICT process quality models
- ICT project management
- ICT project management methodologies
- ICT security legislation
- identify ICT security risks
- implement corporate governance
- implement ICT security policies
- information confidentiality
- lead disaster recovery exercises
- maintain plan for continuity of operations
- manage disaster recovery plans
- manage IT security compliances
- monitor developments in field of expertise
- monitor technology trends
- organisational resilience
- utilise decision support system
Other moves from cybersecurity risk manager
2 roles- cyber incident responder12 skills in common
- ethical hacker12 skills in common
← cybersecurity risk managerchief ICT security officer →The other way round
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How far are you from being a chief ICT security officer?
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