3.7 KiB
3.7 KiB
Competences — digital forensics expert
Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0c448a27-10ec-43ba-b880-d9938bade424).
Essential
- apply reverse engineering (skill/competence)
- attack vectors (knowledge)
- audit techniques (knowledge)
- check methods (knowledge)
- computer forensics (knowledge)
- cyber attack counter-measures (knowledge)
- cyber security (knowledge)
- develop information security strategy (skill/competence)
- digital data processing (nan)
- educate on data confidentiality (skill/competence)
- establish an ICT security prevention plan (skill/competence)
- forensic intelligence (knowledge)
- gather data for forensic purposes (skill/competence)
- GDPR (knowledge)
- ICT infrastructure (knowledge)
- ICT network security risks (knowledge)
- ICT security legislation (knowledge)
- ICT security standards (knowledge)
- identify ICT security risks (skill/competence)
- identify ICT system weaknesses (skill/competence)
- implement ICT network diagnostic tools (skill/competence)
- information confidentiality (knowledge)
- levels of software testing (knowledge)
- manage data for legal matters (skill/competence)
- manage IT security compliances (skill/competence)
- operating systems (knowledge)
- penetration testing tool (knowledge)
- perform forensic preservations of digital devices (skill/competence)
- perform ICT security testing (skill/competence)
- present evidence (skill/competence)
- provide ICT consulting advice (skill/competence)
- query languages (knowledge)
- resource description framework query language (knowledge)
- secure sensitive customer's information (skill/competence)
- security engineering (knowledge)
- security threats (knowledge)
- tools for ICT test automation (knowledge)
- use scripting programming (skill/competence)
- use software for data preservation (skill/competence)
- use technology for forensics (skill/competence)
Optional
- Aircrack (penetration testing tool) (knowledge)
- analyse network configuration and performance (skill/competence)
- Backbox (penetration testing tool) (knowledge)
- BlackArch (knowledge)
- Cain and Abel (penetration testing tool) (knowledge)
- cloud technologies (knowledge)
- collect cyber defence data (skill/competence)
- data storage (knowledge)
- design computer network (skill/competence)
- hardware architectures (knowledge)
- hardware platforms (knowledge)
- ICT encryption (knowledge)
- implement ICT security policies (skill/competence)
- information architecture (knowledge)
- information security strategy (knowledge)
- John The Ripper (penetration testing tool) (knowledge)
- Kali Linux (knowledge)
- LDAP (knowledge)
- legal requirements of ICT products (knowledge)
- LINQ (knowledge)
- Maltego (knowledge)
- manage cloud data and storage (skill/competence)
- MDX (knowledge)
- Metasploit (knowledge)
- N1QL (knowledge)
- Nessus (knowledge)
- Nexpose (knowledge)
- OWASP ZAP (knowledge)
- Parrot Security OS (knowledge)
- perform data mining (skill/competence)
- Samurai Web Testing Framework (knowledge)
- SPARQL (knowledge)
- THC Hydra (knowledge)
- use different communication channels (skill/competence)
- WhiteHat Sentinel (knowledge)
- Wireshark (knowledge)
- XQuery (knowledge)
Market evidence (job-ad analysis, 30 ads, as of 2026-07-11)
Share of analyzed job ads mentioning the item (threshold ≥ 20 %). Source: JSearch/Adzuna APIs.
Hard skills
- digital forensics — 83 %
- data recovery — 33 %
- incident response — 30 %
- forensic analysis — 23 %
- malware analysis — 20 %
- evidence preservation — 20 %