ICT security technician

About this career

ICT security technicians propose and implement necessary security updates and measures whenever is required. They advise, support, inform and provide training and security awareness.

Essential skills

address problems critically analyse ICT system communicate with stakeholders engage with stakeholders ensure proper document management establish an ICT security prevention plan estimate duration of work execute software tests identify ICT security risks identify ICT system weaknesses implement ICT risk management integrate system components manage alarm system manage closed-circuit television system manage system security protect ICT devices set up cybersecurity training programmes solve ICT system problems use access control software

Required knowledge

attack vectors audit techniques cyber attack counter-measures cyber security ICT networking hardware ICT security standards ICT system programming levels of software testing operating systems penetration testing tool procurement of ICT network equipment security engineering systems development life-cycle tools for ICT test automation web application security threats

Additional skills

comply with legal regulations cooperate with colleagues execute ICT audits ICT safety implement a firewall implement a virtual private network implement anti-virus software implement cloud security and compliance implement ICT security policies install low voltage wiring manage cloud data and storage manage IT security compliances manage keys for data protection remove computer virus or malware from a computer use back-up and recovery tools ABAP AJAX APL ASP.NET Assembly (computer programming) C# C++ Cisco cloud monitoring and reporting cloud security and compliance COBOL CoffeeScript Common Lisp computer programming Erlang Groovy Haskell ICT encryption ICT network security risks ICT security legislation Internet of Things Java (computer programming) JavaScript Lisp MATLAB Microsoft Visual C++ ML (computer programming) Objective-C OpenEdge Advanced Business Language organisational resilience Pascal (computer programming) Perl PHP Prolog (computer programming) Python (computer programming) R Ruby (computer programming) SAP R3 SAS language Scala Scratch (computer programming) Smalltalk (computer programming) Swift (computer programming) TypeScript VBScript Visual Basic

Also known as

ICT security technicians cybersecurity developer development and operations security engineer ICT security technician IT security officer cybersecurity implementer IT security technician DevSecOps engineer cybersecurity solutions expert information security implement ICT security officer