Where a cybersecurity risk manager can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a cybersecurity risk manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Cybersecurity risk managers identify, analyse, assess, estimate and mitigate cybersecurity-related risks of ICT infrastructures such as systems or services. They manage these aspects by planning risk analysis, applying, reporting, assessing, communicating, and treating them. They establish a risk management strategy for the organisation and ensure that risks remain at an acceptable level for the organisation by selecting mitigation actions and controls.
Also known as cybersecurity specialist, cybersecurity risk assurance consultant, information security manager, cyber risk manager, cybersecurity risk assessor, IT security chief, ICT security chief, ICT security manager, ICT technical security expert, security coordinator, cybersecurity impact analyst, IT security manager.
Professionals 72 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: chief ICT security officer, 63%
- 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 cybersecurity risk manager needs 22 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
- advice on security risk management information skills
- engage with stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
- ICT safety working with computers
- ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards assisting and caring
- ethical hacking principles information and communication technologies (icts)
- communicate with stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
- manage system security working with computers
- cyber attack counter-measures services
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a cybersecurity risk manager does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- chief ICT security officer 75% covered · difficulty 36.6
- ethical hacker 52% covered · difficulty 59.5
- cyber incident responder 51% covered · difficulty 61.4
- ICT security technician 50% covered · difficulty 61.6
- ICT security administrator 39% covered · difficulty 70.5
- digital forensics expert 33% covered · difficulty 75.4
- ICT resilience manager 31% covered · difficulty 76.7
- ICT disaster recovery analyst 27% covered · difficulty 79.8
- ICT system administrator 23% covered · difficulty 82.3
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Cybersecurity risk manager 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 cybersecurity risk manager’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.