Occupation Atlasethical hacker
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/76ef0a87-6afe-4560-b5d0-9a086abe45c5
ethical hacker
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.
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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.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.19
- C Conventional5.18
- R Realistic3.91
- E Enterprising2.10
- S Social1.99
- A Artistic1.31
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 Penetration Testers (15-1299.04): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (36)
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 infrastructure
- ICT network security risks
- ICT security standards
- ICT system integration
- address problems critically
- analyse the context of an organisation
- attack vectors
- building systems monitoring technology
- communicate with stakeholders
- computer forensics
- computer programming
- conduct ICT code review
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- develop code exploits
- engage with stakeholders
- ethical hacking principles
- ethics
- execute ICT audits
- execute social engineering tests
- execute software tests
- identify ICT security risks
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- implement ICT risk management
- information security strategy
- legal requirements of ICT products
- manage system security
- monitor system performance
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- perform ICT security testing
- security engineering
- software anomalies
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- web application security threats
Optional (38)
- Aircrack (penetration testing tool)
- Backbox (penetration testing tool)
- BlackArch
- Cain and Abel (penetration testing tool)
- ICT encryption
- ICT safety
- ICT security legislation
- Internet of Things
- John The Ripper (penetration testing tool)
- Kali Linux
- Maltego
- Metasploit
- Nessus
- Nexpose
- OWASP ZAP
- Open source model
- Outsourcing model
- Parrot Security OS
- Samurai Web Testing Framework
- WhiteHat Sentinel
- Wireshark
- define security policies
- hybrid model
- implement ICT security policies
- implement a firewall
- information confidentiality
- internet governance
- levels of software testing
- maintain ICT server
- manage IT security compliances
- manage cloud data and storage
- organisational resilience
- perform project management
- proxy servers
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer
- service-oriented modelling
- set up cybersecurity training programmes
- solve ICT system problems
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 36 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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