6 Cybersecurity Soft Skills To Elevate Your Career
SearchSecurity, Tuesday, September 24th, 2024
Cybersecurity professionals have the technical skills to protect their corporate networks, but they also need to master certain soft skills if they truly want to be effective.
Information security professionals must embrace new technologies and the perpetual learning curve that comes with them -- the industry attracts those with a voracious appetite for knowledge.
At the same time, career success requires more than just understanding technologies. Soft skills -- characteristics that enable people to work well with one another -- rank high on the list of desired attributes for practitioners in cybersecurity, governance, risk and compliance roles. This fact isn't necessarily a revelation for the industry. Information security and risk management programs are most often described as encompassing people, process and technology -- in order of priority.