New Skill Testing Platform For 6 Most In-Demand Cybersecurity Jobs

Building a security team is a necessity for organizations of
all industries and sizes. It makes selecting the right person for
the job a critical task in which testing candidates’ domain
knowledge is a core component of the hiring process.

A common practice is for each organization to put together a
dedicated set of questions for each role.

Today, Cynet launches the Cybersecurity Skill
Tests website^[1]
to optimize the hiring process with an automated online
questionnaire form for each such position.

Cynet has assembled a vast question pool with hundreds of
dedicated questions for the 6 leading cybersecurity positions (see
below), covering all aspects of each selected role.

A selection algorithm is used to generate a set of 25 questions
in increasing difficulty level, which touches all the important
knowledge areas of each candidate’s position.

No two questionnaires are the same to ensure the answers’
reliability.

How does this work in practice?

Following the account creation in the Cybersecurity Candidates
Questionnaires website, the CISO – or anyone who’s accountable for
hiring security professionals–can insert the candidate’s name and
email into the interface, and the questionnaire will be emailed to
the candidate directly.

Each candidate has to answer all 25 questions. Once the
candidate is done submitting all answers, the results (both score
and time it took to answer) show on the recruiter’s dashboard,
enabling him to quickly shortlist the top achievers.

The Cybersecurity Skill
Tests^[2] website includes
knowledge questions for the following positions:

• SOC Manager – responsible for establishing and
  overseeing the workflows of security event monitoring, management,
  and response. As well as ensure compliance with SLA, process
  adherence, and process improvisation to achieve operational
  objectives.
• SOC Analyst – responsible for initial alert triage,
  immediate containment, investigation, management of remediation
  actions, and proactive detection of hidden threats.
• Malware Analyst – responsible for researching discovered
  malware by reverse engineering, static and dynamic analysis, etc.
  and provide insights regarding the nature of threats that target
  the organization.
• Security Architect – responsible for designing,
  building, testing, and implementing security systems within an
  organization’s IT network to protect both business and customer
  data.
• IT Security – responsible for both IT and basic
  cybersecurity policies and standards. This position would be in
  demand for organizations that need security skills in their teams
  but cannot afford a dedicated security position.
• Incident Responder – responsible for the full
  operational cycle from the initial suspicion of a breach and
  investigation first steps, through forensic investigation,
  unveiling the incident’s scope and root cause to final remediation
  and recovery actions.

So, do you have candidates for any of these positions? Simply
create an account on the Cybersecurity Skills
Tests website^[3]
here and start testing the candidates.