Cyber Security Manager / Administrator

Career Area: Information Technology

Occupation Group: Network and Systems Engineering

Salary

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A typical Cyber Security Manager / Administrator earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $100,685

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $97,902

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Monitors, controls, and maintains systems that protect the security of large databases, including databases with customer information and patient files. Manages and administers the examination of client computer systems, identification of weak points in security, development and implementation of new systems, and monitoring and response to security issues.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Cyber Security Manager / Administrator is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Problem Solving: Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, for finding solutions to problems.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
• Research: Experience performing creative and systematic work to understand a product, market, or customer, either before building a new solution, or to troubleshoot an existing issue

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Information Security: Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of preventing unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, inspection, recording or destruction of information.
• Information Systems: An information system (IS) is an organized system for the collection, organization, storage and communication of information.
• NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Working experience of NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) provides a policy framework of computer security guidance for how private sector organizations in the United States can assess and improve their ability to prevent, detect, and respond to cyber attacks. It provides a high level taxonomy of cybersecurity outcomes and a methodology to assess and manage those outcomes. Version 1.0 was published by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2014, originally aimed at operators of critical infrastructure. Is being used by a wide range of businesses and organizations, and helps shift organizations to be proactive about risk management. In 2017, a draft version of the framework, version 1.1, was circulated for public comment[4].
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.
• Network Security: Network security consists of the policies and practices adopted to prevent and monitor unauthorized access, misuse, modification, or denial of a computer network and network-accessible resources.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Cyber Security Manager / Administrator that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Intrusion detection: Working experience of Intrusion detection, which is the use of a device or software application to monitor a network or system for malicious activity or policy violations.
• Security Operations Management: Working experience of Security Operations Management, which is a collection of associated security activities that help to maintain the ongoing security posture of an organization. It consists of the monitoring, maintenance and management of the security aspects of the IT estate, its people, and its processes.
• Nessus: Working experience of Nessus, which is a proprietary vulnerability scanner developed by Tenable Network Security.
• National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual: The National Industrial Security Program, or NISP, is the nominal authority (in the United States) for managing the needs of private industry to access classified information.
• Certified Ethical Hacker:

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Information Security Manager
• Information Systems Security Officer
• Information Systems Security Officer Isso
• Security Administrator
• Information Security Officer

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• Cyber Security Engineer
• Information Assurance Engineer / Analyst
• Cyber Security Architect
• IT Auditor
• Systems Engineer