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Cybersecurity Analyst

VA / Role brief

Identify, investigate and reduce security risk across systems, people and processes.

Role overview

Translate your experience into the evidence this pathway needs.

Analysts can move toward incident response, security engineering, governance and risk, cloud security or security leadership.

Discuss this role
01

Core responsibilities

  • Monitor and investigate threats
  • Assess vulnerabilities and controls
  • Support incident response and security awareness
02

Evidence to prepare

  • Threats detected or incidents contained
  • Risk prioritised and controls improved
  • Clear communication with technical and business teams
03

Skills and scope

  • Security operations
  • Risk assessment
  • Incident response
  • Security tooling and communication