8 Hot Skills Sought By IT Security Departments

 

Troubleshooting - Which is really asking all the right questions to discover the issue and solutions. Always room for improvement in that skill.

 

Innate Curiosity - This a good one that brought back unfortunate memory of getting denied an internal position because I wasn't deemed "curious enough". What a great, but BS excuse to deny someone a job? Moral of the story, fake until you make it, try to show your curious even  if your really not.

 

Knowledge of the Latest Attack Trends - self explanatory, but who truly has the time for this outside of work or during work?

 

Knowledge of the Latest Vulnerabilities - self explanatory, but who truly has the time for this outside of work or during work?

 

Incident Response (Automation) - Essentially creating scripts to do things such as finding a malware string for scanning servers. For a recent malware issue, nobody knew how to create the script  to accomplish this quickly. Had to locate people in the organization that could

 

Data Analysis and Dashboard/Visualization Creation - Creating pretty graphs and charts to describe or summarize issues for Management, they really like that.

 

Philosophy of Servitude (be a Superhero) - They mention volunteering and commitment, I see it as stepping up volunteering for crap details that Managers ask for volunteers. I do it occasionally, but I admit I am loath to get involved in more nonsense than I am already in, but I should be volunteering more

 

Communication - The ability to communicate the issues to Management in the most concise and brief documentation that gives understanding of what the issue