SEC504: Hacker Tools, Techniques, and Incident Handling

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capability related to architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining the trustworthiness of systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources in order to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises.
Collect, process, analyse data and information to produce actionable intelligence reports and disseminate them to target stakeholders.
Develops workforce plans, policies, and training to align cyberspace personnel with organizational needs and evolving cyber missions.
Responsible for investigating cyberspace intrusion incidents and crimes. Applies tactics, techniques, and procedures for a full range of investigative tools and processes and appropriately balances the benefits of prosecution versus intelligence gathering.
As this is one of the highest-paid jobs in the field, the skills required to master the responsibilities involved are advanced. You must be highly competent in threat detection, threat analysis, and threat protection. This is a vital role in preserving the security and integrity of an organization’s data.
Plans and designs security-by-design solutions (infrastructures, systems, assets, software, hardware and services) and cybersecurity controls.
Responsible for ensuring that security requirements are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture, including reference models, segment and solution architectures, and the resulting systems that protect and support organizational mission and business processes.
Perform cybersecurity audits on the organisation’s ecosystem. Ensuring compliance with statutory, regulatory, policy information, security requirements, industry standards and best practices.
Responsible for developing, planning, coordinating, and evaluating cybersecurity awareness, training, or education content, methods, and techniques based on instructional needs and requirements.