From ICT security technician to digital forensics expert
13 of the 40 essential skills of a digital forensics expert are already essential for a ICT security technician — 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.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 27
- would be new
- 33%
- 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
13 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
- establish an ICT security prevention plan
- ICT security standards
- identify ICT security risks
- identify ICT system weaknesses
- levels of software testing
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- security engineering
- tools for ICT test automation
What would be new
27 skillsEssential for a digital forensics expert and not for a ICT security technician. 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
- develop information security strategy
- digital data processing
- educate on data confidentiality
- forensic intelligence
- gather data for forensic purposes
- GDPR
- ICT infrastructure
- ICT network security risks
- ICT security legislation
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools
- information confidentiality
- manage data for legal matters
- manage IT security compliances
- 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
- use scripting programming
- use software for data preservation
- use technology for forensics
Other moves from ICT security technician
2 roles- ethical hacker17 skills in common
- chief ICT security officer12 skills in common
← ICT security techniciandigital forensics expert →The other way round
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How far are you from being a digital forensics expert?
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