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What would you say your biggest strength is that has helped you develop your career as an information security analyst?

I understand that complex problem-solving and critical thinking skills are pretty much essential when it comes to any IT field. Are their any skills that I may not have considered or that you think are underappreciated in your field? What would you consider your top 3 skills of this trade?

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Stan’s Answer

1. Passion and interest to learn more.
2. Analytical skills as well as good communication skills to "boil down" complex topics to laymen terms so that non-technical people can understand.
3. Ability to manage change as that is the only thing that is constant.
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Antwyne’s Answer

1. passion - things change constantly so having a passion to learn new things is a must.
2. creative thinking - sometimes an answer to a problem is not obvious. Being able to "think outside the box" will help a lot.
3. relationship management - being able to work with people from different background and experiences as well as leveraging those relationship will help you!
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Edmond’s Answer

I'll just add one more item to the list of already great points provided so far and that's the ability to understand the business and how non-technical workforce think and operate, and take into account non-technical information which often time, would impact a technical analysis.
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Gennadii’s Answer

Good day!

I can say that knowledge management skills are very important. This goes about organizing and sharing your knowledge in day-to-day work.
The harder the problems are and more you know in your field, the harder it gets to remember or find information that you need at the moment.
I highly recommend to organize your notes, bookmarks, collections, books, ideas, etc. in a way which makes it easily accessable for you and your collogues.
Most of problem investigations start from information gathering about the problem. Be sure that you know how to structure the information to make it useful. It should be easy readable and clear. This way it will be much easier to solve complex problems and note your "lessons learned" from mistakes.

Gennadii recommends the following next steps:

Find a tool to organize and share your knowledge.
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Audree’s Answer

There are many aspects to Information Security, including:
* writing (documenting processes, authoring policies and procedures),
* statistics (identifying and measuring metrics, tracking KPIs)
* automation (setting up repeatable processes such as vulnerability scans)

Developing technical writing skills, upgrading your statistics knowledge and using appropriate scripting languages to automate processes are a few important areas to focus on.
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Elliot’s Answer

The info sec people I know are just good, talented engineers. As stated above, organization is important. Create piles, folders, boxes with your notes/files/books/magazines/etc/etc that pertain to the languages, topics, tools you use. First curate (collect) information about info sec, then organize it, then READ it! You create a personal learning library so you can refer to these materials as needed. And if things are easily located, it is more likely to be useful to you. I think in any area of software development, you need:
1) Curiosity to explore and investigate the topics related
2) Stamina to dive in and keep reading/trying/coding/testing/etc.
3)People skills to learn from/work with/team with/mentor/interview/etc.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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