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Marketable Skills

INFORMATION ASSURANCE MARKETABLE SKILLS

• Review logs in various devices and operating systems and provide forensic analysis.
• Document in work order/ticket systems and create reports for customers.
• Create policies, procedures, and processes to help secure organizations data.
• Utilize data, tools, and technology resources to safeguard organizations.
•  Identify Risk and its components, be able to distinguish between threat or threat agent and
risk, be able to follow a process in creating a risk statement, be able to distinguish between
vulnerability and weakness, and be able to make risk-based decisions.
• Apply common cybersecurity standards (e.g. CIS, NIST, HIPAA, SOX), understand what
benchmarks are, understand what baselines are, and understand how one can use the
standards in reducing and organizations exposure.
• Create and apply metrics in order to provide meaningful, actionable information regarding
various aspects of a security program.
• Communicate in a professional and understandable manner both verbally and in writing.
This includes the development and delivery of presentations to peers, managers, clients, and
executives.
• Collaborate with various constituents to accomplish team goals.
• Work in an ethical manner by upholding company expectations, industry standards, and
legal precedents.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze, synthesize, and evaluate information.
• Conduct research on an assigned or selected topic(s) and demonstrate knowledge of the
researched topic.
• Receive or provide feedback to team members.
• Ask questions in seeking understanding of a topic.
• Work within established deadlines and take accountability for one’s work product.

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