Where a director of compliance and information security can go next

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 3 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

• director of compliance and information security in gambling 21% covered · difficulty 72.4
• data protection officer 21% covered · difficulty 82.8
• ICT auditor manager 19% covered · difficulty 81

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A director of compliance and information security needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• manage IT security compliances working with computers
• implement ICT risk management information skills
• ICT security standards information and communication technologies (icts)
• information security strategy information and communication technologies (icts)
• keep up-to-date with regulations information skills
• cyber security services
• ensure compliance with policies management skills
• ICT security legislation business, administration and law
• implement ICT security policies working with computers
• cooperate with colleagues communication, collaboration and creativity

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a director of compliance and information security does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

• chief ICT security officer 67% covered · difficulty 28.3
• data protection officer 67% covered · difficulty 29.9
• cyber incident responder 58% covered · difficulty 35.1
• ethical hacker 58% covered · difficulty 35.1
• ICT auditor manager 58% covered · difficulty 35.9
• ICT security administrator 50% covered · difficulty 42.5
• IT auditor 42% covered · difficulty 49.7
• director of compliance and information security in gambling 25% covered · difficulty 64.1

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Director of compliance and information security is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. 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 director of compliance and information security’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.