Security Management Specialists

$70.53K Median Salary 104.2K Job Openings (Annual Projection) 8.8% Job Growth

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Conduct security assessments for organizations, and design security systems and processes. May specialize in areas such as physical security, personnel security, and information security. May work in fields such as health care, banking, gaming, security engineering, or manufacturing.

Reported Job Titles

Consultant, Director, Security Risk Management, Operations Staff Specialist, Security, Physical Security Engineer, Physical Security Specialist, Principal Engineer, Security Engineering and Applied Science, Section Chief, Physical Security Specialist, Security Analyst, Security Consultant, Security Specialist

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Abilities

Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.

Knowledge

Public Safety and Security: Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
English Language: Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
Computers and Electronics: Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
Customer and Personal Service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
Engineering and Technology: Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Administration and Management: Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
Design: Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
Telecommunications: Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
Building and Construction: Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
Education and Training: Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
Personnel and Human Resources: Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
Law and Government: Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

Skills

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.
Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.
Operations Analysis: Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Technology Skills

Network monitoring software: Nagios; Wireshark
Development environment software: Adobe Systems Adobe Creative Suite
Operating system software: Apple macOS; Microsoft operating system; Microsoft Windows
Transaction security and virus protection software: SSL
Object or component oriented development software: Python; R
Network security and virtual private network VPN equipment software: Firewall software; Juniper Networks NetScreen-Security Manager
Data base user interface and query software: Data entry software; Database management software; Microsoft Access; Relational database software
Web platform development software: Microsoft Active Server Pages ASP
Enterprise system management software: IBM Power Systems software; Splunk Enterprise
Access software: Citrix
Graphics or photo imaging software: Microsoft Visio
Spreadsheet software: IBM Lotus 1-2-3; Microsoft Excel
Document management software: Adobe Systems Adobe Acrobat
Video conferencing software: Web conferencing software
Enterprise resource planning ERP software: Oracle PeopleSoft
Gateway software: Secure web gateway software
Network security or virtual private network VPN management software: CA SiteMinder
Enterprise application integration software: Extensible markup language XML
Facilities management software: Computerized maintenance management system CMMS
Transaction server software: Customer information control system CICS; Microsoft Internet Information Service IIS
Office suite software: Corel WordPerfect; Microsoft Office
Word processing software: Microsoft Word
Data base management system software: Microsoft SQL Server
Computer aided design CAD software: Autodesk AutoCAD; Computer aided design and drafting CADD software; Dassault Systemes CATIA; Vero Software Alphacam
Administration software: Network management software
Business intelligence and data analysis software: Tableau
Data base reporting software: Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services; SAP Crystal Reports
Internet browser software: Web browser software
Presentation software: Microsoft PowerPoint
Web page creation and editing software: Facebook; LinkedIn
Project management software: Microsoft Project

Tools

Digital camcorders or video cameras: Tree top peeper and video probe systems
Security or access control systems: Keyless entry systems; Physical access control systems
Closed circuit television CCTV system: Closed circuit television CCTV surveillance systems
Audioconferencing systems:
Videoconferencing systems: Videoconferencing equipment
Computer servers: Application servers; Web servers
Alarm systems: Teller alarms; Vault security alarms
Card key lock: Card access devices
Magnetometer geophysical instruments: Magnetometers
Motion detectors: Approach detection systems
X ray radiography examination equipment: Backscatter imaging units; CastScope machines; X ray security inspection equipment
Network routers: Computer network routers
Desktop computers:
Personal computers:
Tablet computers:

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