From chief ICT security officer to digital forensics expert
14 of the 40 essential skills of a digital forensics expert are already essential for a chief ICT security officer — about 35% 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.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 26
- would be new
- 35%
- of the target job covered
- 40
- essential skills of a digital forensics expert
What a digital forensics expert does
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.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- attack vectors
- audit techniques
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- develop information security strategy
- educate on data confidentiality
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- ICT network security risks
- ICT security legislation
- ICT security standards
- identify ICT security risks
- information confidentiality
- manage IT security compliances
- security engineering
What would be new
26 skillsEssential for a digital forensics expert and not for a chief ICT security officer. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- apply reverse engineering
- check methods
- computer forensics
- digital data processing
- forensic intelligence
- gather data for forensic purposes
- GDPR
- ICT infrastructure
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools
- levels of software testing
- manage data for legal matters
- 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 threats
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- use software for data preservation
- use technology for forensics
Other moves from chief ICT security officer
2 roles- cybersecurity risk manager20 skills in common
- ethical hacker14 skills in common
← chief ICT security officerdigital forensics expert →The other way round
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How far are you from being a digital forensics expert?
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