ISCO Occupation Group 2529.3 Ethical Hacker

From Open Risk Manual

Definition

Ethical Hacker: Ethical hackers perform security vulnerability assessments and penetration tests in accordance with industry-accepted methods and protocols. They analyse systems for potential vulnerabilities that may result from improper system configuration, hardware or software flaws, or operational weaknesses.

Essential Skills

  • Legal Requirements Of Ict Products
  • Computer Forensics
  • Cyber Attack Counter-Measures
  • Provide Technical Documentation
  • Penetration Testing Tool
  • Perform Security Vulnerability Assessments
  • Execute Software Tests
  • Monitor System Performance
  • Analyse The Context Of An Organisation
  • Web Application Security Threats
  • Execute Ict Audits
  • Develop Code Exploits
  • Identify Ict System Weaknesses
  • Tools For Ict Test Automation
  • Address Problems Critically
  • Identify Ict Security Risks
  • Software Anomalies


Optional Skills

  • Perform Project Management
  • Manage It Security Compliances
  • Define Security Policies
  • Cyber Security
  • Levels Of Software Testing
  • Ict Security Standards
  • Ict Encryption
  • Whitehat Sentinel
  • Information Security Strategy
  • Open Source Model
  • Outsourcing Model
  • Information Confidentiality
  • Solve Ict System Problems
  • Nessus
  • Organisational Resilience
  • Saas (Service-Oriented Modelling)
  • Ict Network Security Risks
  • Internet Governance
  • Ict Security Legislation
  • Internet Of Things
  • Maintain Ict Server
  • Proxy Servers
  • Hybrid Model
  • Nexpose
  • Service-Oriented Modelling


Alternative Names

  • Vulnerability Analyst
  • Ethical Hackers
  • Ict Security Tester
  • System Security Tester
  • Network Security Tester


Higher Level