Cybersecurity specialist (industrial)

Profession will appear after 2025
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Mechanical engineering

A specialist who ensures the security of the company's information systems from unauthorized interference with the purpose of extortion, theft or destruction of information.

Its responsibilities include:

  • developing measures to ensure the security of information and the leakage of confidential information;
  • research of existing information security methods and development of proposals for their improvement;
  • forecasting potential sources of threats, as well as assessing the risks and possible damage from cyber attacks for the enterprise and promptly neutralizing the consequences when they occur;
  • instruct staff on information security rules and monitor compliance with these rules.

Novelty of the profession:

  • The rapid pace of the emergence of new and more complex programs for hacking information bases of enterprises requires more powerful protection of an increasing number of smart devices connected to the network (robotic systems, monitoring sensors, automated control systems, etc.). Key competence
  • Traditional methods of protection no longer guarantee complete security from hacker attacks.
  • Programming.
  • Basics of information database protection.

Over-professional skills

They understand customer focus as the ability to work with customer requests, the ability of the company and employees to timely determine the desires of customers in order to satisfy them with their products or services with maximum benefit. This competency has become critical to the success of companies, competition for consumers is growing all the time, and all employers want to see customer-oriented employees. In the second half of the 20th century, the concept of an internal client appeared, i.e. an intermediate consumer located further along the production chain within the same company. Possession of this competency allows you to accurately understand the client’s request and offer the most suitable solution for him, as well as to build the production and service process more rationally, eliminating the stages that are not important for the client.

skill

Customer focus

The ability of a specialist to combine (summarize) particular facts into a big picture, build hierarchical levels for understanding various situations (economic, political, business) and making long-term decisions. An important quality is the understanding of how a change in one element will subsequently affect other elements.

The importance of systemic thinking is increasing due to the acceleration of changes in life, the need to learn new professions, as well as the growing interpenetration of various areas in each other (social networks, economics, politics, production, etc.).

Specialists with systemic thinking skills will be able to solve such problems, make strong long-term decisions in the context of rapid changes in the economy, diagnose large technical and social systems, make decisions on eliminating the root causes that hinder development, and this skill will allow for the integration of various project teams into a single working organism.

skill

Systemic thinking

Project and process management includes the ability to focus on the project goals, the ability to competently plan and organize team actions for the effective implementation of tasks, the ability to assess existing risks and opportunities for all parties to the interaction. A specialist who has this skill knows how to properly organize the work on the project within the specified funding framework, and is able to correctly distribute the work in order to meet the deadlines set by the project. such a specialist is constantly learning something new, is not afraid to make mistakes, is able to generate new effective ways to solve problems and tasks. the demand for specialists with knowledge and tools in the field of project management will increase, as project activities are considered by companies as the most important factor in their effective development
skill

Project and process management

Intersectoral communication consists in understanding technologies, processes and the market situation in various related and non-adjacent industries, cross-functional and cross-disciplinary interaction. More and more advanced products are created at the junction of different industries and specialists need the ability to understand several areas of knowledge at the same time. This competency allows you to learn faster, take the best from different fields, and through this mutual enrichment, ensure development within your field. Those with such competence can create unexpected, unique, breakthrough solutions.

skill

Intersectoral communication

Educational institutions

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Karaganda State Technical University

https://www.kstu.kz/

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Companies in which this profession may be in demand

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Hyundai Trans Auto LLP

http://hyundai-hta.kz/

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LLP "Electric locomotive krastyru zauyty"

http://www.ekz.com.kz/ru/about/

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LLP "Karaganda Foundry and Mechanical Plant"

https://karadelm.kz/energetika-foto/

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JSC "Petropavlovsk Heavy Machine Building Plant"

http://www.pztm.kz/index.php?id=predpriyatie-segodnya

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LLP "Composite Group Kazakhstan"

https://kompozitgroup.kz/

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AgromashHolding KZ JSC

https://amh.kz/

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LLP "Kazcentrelectroprovod"

https://kcep.kz/

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LLP "Kazakhstan ASELSAN Engineering"

https://www.kae.com.kz/ru/about-company.html

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