Occupation Atlascybersecurity risk manager
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/7754d570-9519-48c2-b1c9-8e165f8bca0f
cybersecurity risk manager
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.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
ECIEnterprising · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- E Enterprising5.23
- C Conventional5.06
- I Investigative4.39
- S Social3.06
- R Realistic2.00
- A Artistic1.66
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Business Continuity Planners (13-1199.04): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (22)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- ICT network security risks
- ICT performance analysis methods
- ICT safety
- ICT security standards
- 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
- implement ICT risk management
- information security strategy
- internal risk management policy
- manage system security
- risk management
- security engineering
- security threats
Optional (50)
- ICT encryption
- ICT problem management techniques
- ICT process quality models
- ICT project management
- ICT quality policy
- ICT recovery techniques
- ICT security legislation
- ICT system user requirements
- Internet of Things
- Open source model
- Outsourcing model
- audit techniques
- cloud monitoring and reporting
- cloud security and compliance
- computer forensics
- decision support systems
- define security policies
- define technology strategy
- design for organisational complexity
- develop information security strategy
- develop with cloud services
- domain name service
- execute ICT audits
- hybrid model
- identify ICT security risks
- implement ICT security policies
- implement a firewall
- implement a virtual private network
- implement anti-virus software
- implement cloud security and compliance
- implement spam protection
- information confidentiality
- internet governance
- investment analysis
- lead disaster recovery exercises
- legal requirements of ICT products
- levels of software testing
- manage disaster recovery plans
- manage keys for data protection
- mobile device management
- organisational resilience
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer
- service-oriented modelling
- solve ICT system problems
- systems development life-cycle
- tools for ICT test automation
- use ICT ticketing system
- use an application-specific interface
- use back-up and recovery tools
- web application security threats
O*NET equivalents
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