Cybersecurity consultant
The cybersecurity consultant role includes a variety of mid-level information security positions focused on helping organizations improve their cybersecurity.
What does a cybersecurity consultant do?
Cybersecurity consultant duties vary depending on the needs of the client, but the core principal is evaluating and communicating an organization’s cybersecurity risk. Knowledge of security standards and frameworks is useful.
It is one of three mid-level, core cybersecurity roles mapped directly to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education’s CyberSeek model.
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Overview
Common job titles
- Security specialist
- Security consultant
- Physical security consultant
- Personnel security consultant
U.S. job openings
- 17,768
Most-requested skills
- Information security
- Surveillance
- Information systems
- Oracle
- Project management
- Asset protection
- Python
- Prevention of criminal activity
- Security operations
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