Where a chief ICT security officer can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a chief ICT security officer already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Chief ICT security officers protect company and employee information against unauthorized access. They also define the Information System security policy, manage security deployment across all Information Systems and ensure the provision of information availability.
Also known as information security manager, CISO, information security administrator, IT security officer, ICT security officer, chief information security officer, ISO, chief ICT security officers, cybersecurity programme director, information security officer, head of IT security, head IT security officer.
Professionals 81 skills on file 5 career moves 3 above 60% overlap Closest: cybersecurity risk manager, 75%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A chief ICT security officer needs 47 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- establish an Information Security Management System assisting and caring
- establish an ICT security prevention plan management skills
- maintain plan for continuity of operations management skills
- advice on security risk management information skills
- educate on data confidentiality communication, collaboration and creativity
- engage with stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
- lead disaster recovery exercises management skills
- manage disaster recovery plans management skills
- ensure information privacy assisting and caring
- ICT safety working with computers
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a chief ICT security officer does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- cybersecurity risk manager 63% covered · difficulty 53.5
- cyber incident responder 42% covered · difficulty 71.5
- ICT security administrator 34% covered · difficulty 77.4
- ICT auditor manager 34% covered · difficulty 77.8
- ICT resilience manager 31% covered · difficulty 79.3
- ICT disaster recovery analyst 27% covered · difficulty 82.3
- IT auditor 25% covered · difficulty 83.6
- data protection officer 24% covered · difficulty 84.3
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Chief ICT security officer is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a chief ICT security officer’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.