How to become a cyber risk specialist

Official title: Cyber risk specialist

Also called: Cyber compliance specialist, Cyber governance specialist, Cyber security consultant, Information and communications technology (ICT) resilience analyst, Information and communications technology (ICT) resilience manager, Information and communications technology (ICT) security consultant, Information and communications technology (ICT) security specialist, Information security analyst, Information technology (IT) security specialist, Product security engineer, Product security engineering manager, Cyber Risk Analyst

Cyber risk specialist conducts cyber risk assessment in support of technology initiatives to help identify IT related risk and determines appropriate controls to mitigate risks. He/she monitors, tracks and manages risk mitigations and exceptions and ensures adequate monitoring capability is incorporated into solutions and products. He/she is familiar with cybersecurity standards, protocols and frameworks, and uses various cybersecurity monitoring and analysis tools and techniques.

Main tasks

• Developing plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorised modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs
• Training users and promoting security awareness to ensure system security and to improve server and network efficiency
• Performing risk assessments and executing tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures

Ways in

• University: Computing & IT degrees, Offered by 5 universities in Singapore

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a cyber risk specialist?

Ways in include: Computing & IT degrees.

Will AI change the work of a cyber risk specialist?

Generative AI could change some tasks in this job, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026