Expert Advice Community

Guest

Become information security consultant

  Quote
Guest
Guest user Created:   Jun 21, 2016 Last commented:   Jun 21, 2016

Become information security consultant

I recently graduate from a university and my degree is a software engineer and I would like to have your advice on how to be an information security consultant. What are the required qualifications, and experience needed in order to reach my objective? How to become fully qualified? What are the necessary steps to become an information security consultant, for somebody without a serious prior knowledge in information security?
0 0

Assign topic to the user

ISO 27001 LEAD IMPLEMENTER COURSE

Become certified as an ISO 27001 consultant.

ISO 27001 LEAD IMPLEMENTER COURSE

Become certified as an ISO 27001 consultant.

Guest
Antonio Jose Segovia Jun 21, 2016

Answer:
Regarding the qualifications, it can be interesting for you ISO 27001 certificates, and regarding the experience it would be recommendable a minimal of 1 year working for another consultant, or working as an information security practitioner.

Regarding become fully qualified, I am not sure if I have understood your question, but generally ISO 27001 certificates have an exam, and you need to pass it to become qualified.

Some steps that you can follow to become an information security consultant for somebody without knowledge in information security are:

1.- Perform a course about information security. Th is can be interesting for you “ISO 27001:2013 Foundations Course” : https://advisera.com/training/iso-27001-foundations-course/ . Or also this one “ISO 27001:2013 Internal Auditor Course” : https://advisera.com/training/iso-27001-internal-auditor-course/

2.- Obtain a certification, for example ISO 27001 Lead Auditor or Lead Implementer. This article can be interesting for you “Lead Auditor Course vs. Lead Implementer Course - Which one to go for?” : https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2014/06/16/lead-auditor-course-vs-lead-implementer-course-which-one-to-go-for/ Or also this one “Qualifications for an ISO 27001 Internal Auditor” : https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2015/03/30/qualifications-for-an-iso-27001-internal-auditor/

3.- Acquire experience working for another consultant, information security practitioner, etc.

Finally this article can be also interesting for you “How to become an ISO 27001 / ISO 22301 consultant” : https://advisera.com/27001academy/blog/2014/07/21/how-to-become-an-iso-27001-iso-22301-consultant/

Quote
0 0

Comment as guest or Sign in

HTML tags are not allowed

Jun 21, 2016

Jun 21, 2016