Whether you’re ready to take the next step in your current field or exploring new horizons, ISACA is your personal career guide. We provide the insights and resources you need—whether you already know your destination or are still discovering your options.
How to use ISACA’s Career Journey Tool
Begin your exploration by choosing from the five following domains: Audit, Governance, Privacy, Risk, and Security. Each domain opens a gateway to functional job areas and directly related job roles.
Functional areas are groupings of job roles. On each functional page, an interactive diagram provides market insights, feeder areas, and common career progression informed by labor market data.
Clicking on any DIRECTLY RELATED ROLE provides an overview of the job role and allows you to unlock the top skills requested by employers.
Throughout this resource, we highlight relevant ISACA offerings that equip you with the knowledge and skills to help you attain current, short-term, and long-term career goals while empowering you to differentiate yourself in today’s competitive job market.
Auditing helps identify potential risk and areas of concern. Auditors assess the design and effectiveness of an organization's internal controls, which are the policies and procedures designed to safeguard assets based on the identified risk, and ultimately express an opinion and provide recommendations where there are gaps.
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Enterprise governance of information and technology is the implementation of organizational structures and processes to support the achievement of strategic goals and enterprise objectives. The board of directors sets the direction for the enterprise and delegates execution of the vision to appropriate senior management through prioritization, decision making, and monitoring of performance, compliance and progress against plans. Governance professionals are tasked with supporting the system by which the organization is evaluated, directed and controlled.
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Privacy professionals play a vital role in data protection and preventing data misuse. They work to ensure privacy considerations are factored into all aspects of data processing. Privacy teams are responsible for understanding and mitigating privacy risk, ensuring compliance, and creating and maintaining a privacy program that aligns with enterprise goals.
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IT risk develops strategies to identify and reduce the impact of current and emerging information and technology related risk. IT risk professionals are tasked with evaluating and monitoring the risk exposure of digitally-enabled processes and promoting risk awareness and accountability throughout the enterprise.
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Security is concerned with protecting IT networks, systems, and software from unauthorized access. Security professionals may review any unauthorized access to, use, or loss of data and IT assets. They also advise on cybersecurity solutions and lead initiatives to protect IT assets and information resources.
