Cyber Security

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Cyber Security Career Breakdown

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Governance Risk and Control

Governance risk compliance (GRC) jobs focus on managing and strategizing an organisation's regulations regarding governance, financial or physical risk, and regulatory compliance for cyber security

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Vulnerability and Penetration Testing

These jobs conduct vulnerability assessments and penetration testing of an organisation's systems to identify vulnerabilities and risks to ensure these are addressed.

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Security Operations

These roles are responsible for directing the activities of security personnel to ensure protection of an organization's physical assets, properties, and resources. Security operations personnel develop and implement security policies and procedures necessary for protecting company assets against theft.

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Forensics Investigation

Forensic investigation involves jobs that retrieve and analyse electronic information from computers, smartphones, tablets, and other types of devices. The devices may have been erased, damaged, compromised, or corrupted (by unauthorized access or malicious software).

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Incident Response

Incident response jobs address or manage the aftermath of a security breach or cyber-attack.These roles ensure that the situation is managed in a way that limits damage and reduces recovery time and costs to the organisation.

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Threat Analysis

These roles are responsible for conducting analysis, providing assessments of known threats and vulnerabilities discovered, and identify policy violations.

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Security Design and Engineering

Persons in these job roles focuses on the design of computer systems and infrastructure that can deal with disruptions such as natural disasters or malicious cyber attacks.