Skills

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