Occupation AtlasICT security technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a44a1dc5-be08-4840-8bd5-770c4ac1ca6d
ICT security technician
ICT security technicians propose and implement necessary security updates and measures whenever is required. They advise, support, inform and provide training and security awareness.
Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CIRConventional · Investigative · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.06
- I Investigative5.54
- R Realistic4.30
- E Enterprising2.66
- S Social1.83
- A Artistic1.33
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Information Security Engineers (15-1299.05): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (34)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- ICT networking hardware
- ICT security standards
- ICT system programming
- address problems critically
- analyse ICT system
- attack vectors
- audit techniques
- communicate with stakeholders
- cyber attack counter-measures
- cyber security
- 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
- levels of software testing
- manage alarm system
- manage closed-circuit television system
- manage system security
- operating systems
- penetration testing tool
- procurement of ICT network equipment
- protect ICT devices
- security engineering
- set up cybersecurity training programmes
- solve ICT system problems
- systems development life-cycle
- tools for ICT test automation
- use access control software
- web application security threats
Optional (61)
- ABAP
- AJAX
- APL
- ASP.NET
- Assembly (computer programming)
- C#
- C++
- COBOL
- Cisco
- CoffeeScript
- Common Lisp
- Erlang
- Groovy
- Haskell
- ICT encryption
- ICT network security risks
- ICT safety
- ICT security legislation
- Internet of Things
- Java (computer programming)
- JavaScript
- Lisp
- MATLAB
- ML (computer programming)
- Microsoft Visual C++
- Objective-C
- OpenEdge Advanced Business Language
- PHP
- Pascal (computer programming)
- Perl
- 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
- cloud monitoring and reporting
- cloud security and compliance
- comply with legal regulations
- computer programming
- cooperate with colleagues
- execute ICT audits
- implement ICT security policies
- implement a firewall
- implement a virtual private network
- implement anti-virus software
- implement cloud security and compliance
- install low voltage wiring
- manage IT security compliances
- manage cloud data and storage
- manage keys for data protection
- organisational resilience
- remove computer virus or malware from a computer
- use back-up and recovery tools
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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