Where an ICT security administrator can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an ICT security administrator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
ICT security administrators plan and carry out security measures to protect information and data from unauthorised access, deliberate attack, theft and corruption.
Also known as CISO, IT security administrator, information security administrator, ICT security administrators, network security administrator, system security administrator.
Professionals 59 skills on file 12 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: director of compliance and information security, 50%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- ethical hacker 42% covered · difficulty 70.7
- cybersecurity risk manager 39% covered · difficulty 70.5
- cyber incident responder 36% covered · difficulty 72
- ICT resilience manager 35% covered · difficulty 68.3
- ICT system administrator 35% covered · difficulty 74.7
- chief ICT security officer 34% covered · difficulty 77.4
- embedded systems security engineer 33% covered · difficulty 73.3
- cloud engineer 32% covered · difficulty 75.8
- ICT security technician 31% covered · difficulty 79.2
- database administrator 28% covered · difficulty 79.3
- cloud identity manager 28% covered · difficulty 68.2
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An ICT security administrator needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- maintain ICT identity management assisting and caring
- maintain database security working with computers
- mobile device management information and communication technologies (icts)
- attend to ICT systems quality working with computers
- system backup best practice information and communication technologies (icts)
- manage ICT data architecture communication, collaboration and creativity
- network standards information and communication technologies (icts)
- ICT safety working with computers
- ethical hacking principles information and communication technologies (icts)
- operating systems information and communication technologies (icts)
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an ICT security administrator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- ethical hacker 49% covered · difficulty 61.1
- cyber incident responder 42% covered · difficulty 66.6
- embedded systems security engineer 31% covered · difficulty 75.6
- ICT system administrator 30% covered · difficulty 76.4
- ICT resilience manager 27% covered · difficulty 79.1
- ICT disaster recovery analyst 23% covered · difficulty 81.8
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ICT security administrator 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 an ICT security administrator’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.