Security Consultant Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Security & Safety

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Security Consultant Skills List in Security & Safety

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Security Consultant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Security Consultant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 38% of Security Consultant job descriptions contained cyber assurance as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

cyber assurance
38%
cyber security
38%
information security
38%
bug bounty
25%
penetration testing
25%
red team
25%
security
25%
data privacy
25%
cyber
13%
defence
13%
mod
13%
audits
13%
sc
13%
business cases
13%
governance
13%
security cleared
13%
policy writing
13%
security consultant
13%
iso27001
13%
guard
13%
secure
13%
sia
13%
sia license
13%
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