Essential Work Habits
- Detail orientation → Audit discrepancy resolution
- Analytical skills → Risk management case study
- Methodical work → Financial audits
- Adaptability → Transition from finance to cybersecurity
- Collaboration → Group project
- Ability to get the job done → Audit leadership moment
- Ability to work methodically and is very detail oriented
- Eagerness to dig into technical questions and examine them from all sides
- Enthusiastic and highly adaptable
- Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
- Demonstrated skills in innovation and collaboration
- Keep a current understanding of vulnerabilities from the Internet
- Maintaining awareness and knowledge of contemporary standards, practices, procedures and methods.
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication
- Ability to explain complex concepts
- Active listening (briefings, cross‑departmental work)
- Presentation skills (briefings, collaborative project)
- Excellent presentation and communications skills to effectively communicate with management and customers
- Ability to clearly articulate complex concepts both written and verbally
- Ability, understanding, and usage of active listening skills especially with customers
Solid Technical Foundation
- Network engineers
- Cybersecurity analysts
- Pen testers
- Firewalls
- Routers and switches
- Virtualization
- OS administration
- Understand architecture, administration, and management of operating systems, networking, and virtualization software
- General programming/software development concepts and software analytical skills
- Proficiency in programming in Java, C/C++, disassemblers, and assembly language and programming knowledge of two or more scripting languages (PHP, Python, Perl, or shell)
- Understanding of how the different type of firewalls and network load balancers work
- Deep understanding of how network routers and switches work
- Evaluate and design systems and network architectures
Detailed Knowledge of Key Technologies
- Open Source Applications
- Linux Operating Systems
- Microsoft Technologies
- Wireless Technologies
- Database Modeling
- Web Application Technologies
- Compiled and Interpreted Development Languages
- Network Implementation (Operational and Security)
- Telephony Technologies (Analog and IP)
- Social Engineering
- Physical Security