Career Overlap Transition record
RecordMove

ICT security technician to cybersecurity risk manager

An ICT security technician already meets 50% of what the cybersecurity risk manager role asks for. The move turns on 10 required skills not yet in the profile.

Fig. 1 · Skill transfer ESCO v1.2.1 · directional
From ICT security technician
50 % overlap
Partial match
To cybersecurity risk manager
34 You already bring
10 Still to learn
72 Skills in the target role2
Learning distance Substantial retraining

61.6/ 100

1 How much of what a cybersecurity risk manager is expected to do is already part of an ICT security technician’s work. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs, because moving into a speciality is not the same problem as moving out of one. 2 Every skill the cybersecurity risk manager role is recorded as needing, required and optional together. What these numbers mean.

Why

Why this move works

A cybersecurity risk manager role treats 12 of its required skills as things an ICT security technician already does. You would walk in with these on day one.

  • ICT network security risks
  • ICT safety
  • ICT security standards
  • attack vectors
  • communicate with stakeholders
  • cyber attack counter-measures

What stands in the way is 10 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 34 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A cybersecurity risk manager role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of an ICT security technician background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held establish an ICT security prevention plan management skills
  • already held engage with stakeholders communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held web application security threats information and communication technologies (icts)
  • already held ICT safety working with computers
  • already held implement cloud security and compliance information skills
  • already held manage keys for data protection working with computers

All 34 carried skills, including the 12 the cybersecurity risk manager role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you may need to learn

The 38 missing skills fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered in the order worth working in. Areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the optional ones. Nothing here is a verdict on you: it is a list of what this particular job asks for that your current one does not.

Skill to pick up Tier
01 information and communication technologies (icts) 4 required, 14 supplementary
  • still to learn ICT performance analysis methods required
  • still to learn ethical hacking principles required
  • still to learn information security strategy required
  • still to learn assessment of risks and threats required
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT recovery techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT system user requirements optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held computer forensics optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held domain name service optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held internet governance optional
  • optional, not held mobile device management optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
02 business, administration and law 2 required, 4 supplementary
  • still to learn internal risk management policy required
  • still to learn risk management required
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held investment analysis optional
  • optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional
03 assisting and caring 2 required, 1 supplementary
  • still to learn ensure adherence to organisational ICT standards required
  • still to learn establish an Information Security Management System required
  • optional, not held develop information security strategy optional
04 information skills 1 required
  • still to learn advice on security risk management required
05 services 1 required
  • still to learn security threats required
06 management skills 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held define security policies optional
  • optional, not held define technology strategy optional
  • optional, not held lead disaster recovery exercises optional
  • optional, not held manage disaster recovery plans optional

2 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a cybersecurity risk manager role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 34 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held ICT network security risks knowledge
  • already held ICT safety skill
  • already held ICT security standards knowledge
  • already held attack vectors knowledge
  • already held communicate with stakeholders skill
  • already held cyber attack counter-measures knowledge
  • already held cyber security knowledge
  • already held engage with stakeholders skill
  • already held establish an ICT security prevention plan skill
  • already held implement ICT risk management skill
  • already held manage system security skill
  • already held security engineering knowledge
  • already held ICT encryption knowledge
  • already held ICT security legislation knowledge
  • already held Internet of Things knowledge
  • already held audit techniques knowledge
  • already held cloud monitoring and reporting knowledge
  • already held cloud security and compliance knowledge
  • already held execute ICT audits skill
  • already held identify ICT security risks skill
  • already held implement ICT security policies skill
  • already held implement a firewall skill
  • already held implement a virtual private network skill
  • already held implement anti-virus software skill
  • already held implement cloud security and compliance skill
  • already held levels of software testing knowledge
  • already held manage keys for data protection skill
  • already held organisational resilience knowledge
  • already held remove computer virus or malware from a computer skill
  • already held solve ICT system problems skill
  • already held systems development life-cycle knowledge
  • already held tools for ICT test automation knowledge
  • already held use back-up and recovery tools skill
  • already held web application security threats knowledge
The 2 learning areas not shown above
Skill to pick up Tier
07 working with computers 4 supplementary
  • optional, not held develop with cloud services optional
  • optional, not held implement spam protection optional
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
  • optional, not held use ICT ticketing system optional
08 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held design for organisational complexity optional
28 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to pick up Tier
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT recovery techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT system user requirements optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held computer forensics optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held define security policies optional
  • optional, not held define technology strategy optional
  • optional, not held design for organisational complexity optional
  • optional, not held develop information security strategy optional
  • optional, not held develop with cloud services optional
  • optional, not held domain name service optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held implement spam protection optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held internet governance optional
  • optional, not held investment analysis optional
  • optional, not held lead disaster recovery exercises optional
  • optional, not held mobile device management optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held use an application-specific interface optional
  • optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional
  • optional, not held manage disaster recovery plans optional
  • optional, not held use ICT ticketing system optional
61 held skills the cybersecurity risk manager role does not ask for
Skill Type
  • not needed by the target role ABAP knowledge
  • not needed by the target role AJAX knowledge
  • not needed by the target role APL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ASP.NET knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Assembly (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role C# knowledge
  • not needed by the target role C++ knowledge
  • not needed by the target role COBOL knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Cisco knowledge
  • not needed by the target role CoffeeScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Common Lisp knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Erlang knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Groovy knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Haskell knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT networking hardware knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ICT system programming knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Java (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role JavaScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Lisp knowledge
  • not needed by the target role MATLAB knowledge
  • not needed by the target role ML (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Microsoft Visual C++ knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Objective-C knowledge
  • not needed by the target role OpenEdge Advanced Business Language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role PHP knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Pascal (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Perl knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Prolog (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Python (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role R knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Ruby (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAP R3 knowledge
  • not needed by the target role SAS language knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Scala knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Scratch (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Smalltalk (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Swift (computer programming) knowledge
  • not needed by the target role TypeScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role VBScript knowledge
  • not needed by the target role Visual Basic knowledge

21 further entries not listed here

25 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to pick up Tier
  • still to learn ICT performance analysis methods required
  • still to learn ethical hacking principles required
  • still to learn information security strategy required
  • still to learn internal risk management policy required
  • still to learn assessment of risks and threats required
  • still to learn risk management required
  • still to learn security threats required
  • optional, not held ICT problem management techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT process quality models optional
  • optional, not held ICT project management optional
  • optional, not held ICT quality policy optional
  • optional, not held ICT recovery techniques optional
  • optional, not held ICT system user requirements optional
  • optional, not held Open source model optional
  • optional, not held Outsourcing model optional
  • optional, not held computer forensics optional
  • optional, not held decision support systems optional
  • optional, not held domain name service optional
  • optional, not held hybrid model optional
  • optional, not held information confidentiality optional
  • optional, not held internet governance optional
  • optional, not held investment analysis optional
  • optional, not held mobile device management optional
  • optional, not held service-oriented modelling optional
  • optional, not held legal requirements of ICT products optional
Index

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FAQ

Common questions about this move

Can an ICT security technician become a cybersecurity risk manager?

Yes, and it is a substantial move. An ICT security technician already covers 50% of what a cybersecurity risk manager is expected to do: 34 skills carry over, 12 of which the cybersecurity risk manager role treats as required.

What skills does an ICT security technician need to become a cybersecurity risk manager?

10 required skills are missing, plus 28 optional ones. They fall into 8 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, led by information and communication technologies (icts). The single most important is ICT performance analysis methods.

How hard is the move from ICT security technician to cybersecurity risk manager?

Its learning distance is 61.6 out of 100, which is the substantial band. That accounts for both how much is missing and how specialised those skills are.

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.