From cybersecurity risk manager to ethical hacker
12 of the 36 essential skills of a ethical hacker are already essential for a cybersecurity risk manager — about 33% 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.
- 12
- skills carry over
- 24
- would be new
- 33%
- of the target job covered
- 36
- essential skills of a ethical hacker
What a ethical hacker does
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.
What carries over
12 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
What would be new
24 skillsEssential for a ethical hacker and not for a cybersecurity risk manager. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- address problems critically
- analyse the context of an organisation
- building systems monitoring technology
- computer forensics
- computer programming
- conduct ICT code review
- develop code exploits
- ethics
- execute ICT audits
- execute social engineering tests
- execute software tests
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT system integration
- identify ICT security risks
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- legal requirements of ICT products
- monitor system performance
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- perform ICT security testing
- software anomalies
- tools for ICT test automation
- use scripting programming
- web application security threats
Other moves from cybersecurity risk manager
2 roles- chief ICT security officer20 skills in common
- cyber incident responder12 skills in common
← cybersecurity risk managerethical hacker →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a ethical hacker?
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.