Cybercrime analyst / investigator
The cybercrime analyst/investigator role includes a variety of entry-level information security positions focused on analyzing and investigating cybercrime events.
What does a cybercrime analyst do?
Cybercrime analysts and investigators require an understanding of how malware compromises a system and the methodologies behind digital forensics, including identifying, preserving, extracting, analyzing and reporting on cybercrime evidence.
It is one of four entry-level, core cybersecurity roles mapped directly to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education’s CyberSeek model.
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Overview
Common job titles
- Digital forensics analyst
- Cyber forensics analyst
- Cybersecurity forensics analyst
- Computer forensics analyst
U.S. job openings
- 967
Most-requested skills
- Computer forensics
- Linux
- Information security
- Consumer electronics
- Hard drives
- Information systems
- Forensic toolkit
- Unix
- Malware engineering
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