Question

Using the Internet, find 3 recent job listings for information security related positions in Australia – these should be from this year. You may find it helpful to use one or more of the standard recruitment websites, such as Seek, Careerone, Adzuna, Jobserve, APSjobs, or some other relevant site. Briefly summarise the key aspects of these positions, such as the duties, the qualifications and skills required, and the salary ranges if available. You should provide one consolidated report for all positions, rather than individual listings of each position. Are there any patterns in these aspects of the job listings? How do these requirements relate to the issues we have covered this semester in Information Security? Does the AS/ISO27000 series standard rate mention in any of them?

Answer 1

Many IT companies across Australia are recruiting for different posts related to information security such as information security manager,information security architect, information security analyst etc.,

Major posting is for information security analyst, a good number of companies are recruiting for the above post. Information security analyst are those who work in an organization to protect their networks and carry out security measures to safeguard the systems. Normally they install softwares such as firewall for protection. This kind of jobs are everlasting since the number of cyber attack is increasing. Successful candidates will lead a team with user access revalidation.

The next major posting is for operational risk manager, this job involves development of operational risk policies,they perform operational risk identification in business units,they perform risk reviews etc.,

The above mentioned are the duties that has to be performed. To enroll to these jobs, there are some qualifications and skills that are required . Such as

The major requirement in all the job are they need a tertiary qualification in related discipline eg Computer science. Experience plays a major role atleat 4 to 5 yeats of experience in any banking or managing team is required, they need persons with knowledge in Unix,sql and other database related softwares, for risk manager posting a important criteria is that the person must have experience in information security and risk management reports, and finally like all other jobs it also requires goid communication skills.

When it comes to salary majority of the organizations are providing a salray of approximately around $110k to $120k, and based on their work they also can avail bonus.

If we consider all these jobs we come to know that they need persons whi are specialist in database management, software tools, security management etc. Hence all these follow a single pattern. The latest standard rate is mentioned in iso27001.

As said earlier these types of jobs are ever expanding due to increase in social engineering attacks and cyber attacks.