digital forensics expert
Digital forensics experts retrieve and analyse information from computers and other types of data storage devices. They examine digital media that may have been hidden, encrypted or damaged, in a forensic manner with the aim to identify, preserve, recover, analyse and present facts and opinions about the digital information.
Also called: information forensics expert, cyber forensics expert, digital forensics specialist, digital forensics experts, cybersecurity and forensic specialist, cybersecurity analyst, digital forensic expert, ICT forensics expert
- 40
- essential skills
- 37
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 2529
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- ethical hackerWhat changes?15 skills in common
- chief ICT security officerWhat changes?14 skills in common
- ICT security technicianWhat changes?13 skills in common
- cyber incident responder11 skills in common
- embedded systems security engineer9 skills in common
- cybersecurity risk manager8 skills in common
- data protection officer7 skills in common
- ICT security administrator6 skills in common
Essential skills
40- apply reverse engineering
- attack vectors
- audit techniques
- check methods
- computer forensics
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- develop information security strategy
- digital data processing
- educate on data confidentiality
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- forensic intelligence
- gather data for forensic purposes
- GDPR
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT network security risks
- ICT security legislation
- ICT security standards
- identify ICT security risks
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools
- information confidentiality
- levels of software testing
- manage data for legal matters
- manage IT security compliances
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- perform forensic preservations of digital devices
- perform ICT security testing
- present evidence
- provide ICT consulting advice
- query languages
- resource description framework query language
- secure sensitive customer's information
- security engineering
- security threats
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- use software for data preservation
- use technology for forensics
Optional skills
37- Aircrack (penetration testing tool)
- analyse network configuration and performance
- Backbox (penetration testing tool)
- BlackArch
- Cain and Abel (penetration testing tool)
- cloud technologies
- collect cyber defence data
- data storage
- design computer network
- hardware architectures
- hardware platforms
- ICT encryption
- implement ICT security policies
- information architecture
- information security strategy
- John The Ripper (penetration testing tool)
- Kali Linux
- LDAP
- legal requirements of ICT products
- LINQ
- Maltego
- manage cloud data and storage
- MDX
- Metasploit
- N1QL
- Nessus
- Nexpose
- OWASP ZAP
- Parrot Security OS
- perform data mining
- Samurai Web Testing Framework
- SPARQL
- THC Hydra
- use different communication channels
- WhiteHat Sentinel
- Wireshark
- XQuery
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