From cyber incident responder to digital forensics expert
11 of the 40 essential skills of a digital forensics expert are already essential for a cyber incident responder — about 28% 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.
- 11
- skills carry over
- 29
- would be new
- 28%
- 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
11 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
29 skillsEssential for a digital forensics expert and not for a cyber incident responder. 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
- audit techniques
- check methods
- computer forensics
- develop information security strategy
- digital data processing
- educate on data confidentiality
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- forensic intelligence
- gather data for forensic purposes
- ICT infrastructure
- 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
- penetration testing tool
- perform forensic preservations of digital devices
- perform ICT security testing
- present evidence
- query languages
- resource description framework query language
- secure sensitive customer's information
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- use software for data preservation
- use technology for forensics
Other moves from cyber incident responder
2 roles- chief ICT security officer12 skills in common
- cybersecurity risk manager12 skills in common
← cyber incident responderdigital forensics expert →The other way round
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How far are you from being a digital forensics expert?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.