Career Advice - September 2022

  • Risk Analysis vs. Risk Management – What’s the Difference?

    Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    In evaluating career opportunities in risk it is important to have a good understanding of different risk roles. In particular, there is often confusion over where the boundary between risk analysis and risk management lies. Here we discuss the differences and bring these to life. First, let’s start with risk management. Risk management is the umbrella term given to the end-to-end process of ...

  • The Evolution of the Chief Information Security Officer

    Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2022 by CareersinCyber.comNo comments

    Published: 27 Sep 2022 Cyber risk has evolved from being considered an IT issue into a top board priority. Cyber-attacks have been on the risk radar since 1988 when Robert Tappan Morris accidentally executed the world’s first Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Back then – and for a long while after – cyber-attacks were only viewed through a technical lens. Powered by the rapid growth of ...

  • How to be a Successful Compliance Officer

    Posted on Tuesday, September 13, 2022 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    The role of the Compliance Officer has evolved this century from a bolt-on middle-management position where someone drew the short straw of added responsibilities – something akin to being a fire warden or first aider – to an essential full-time job amid ever-changing and escalating regulatory demands. In those early days businesses typically viewed the role as a box-ticking exercise, rather than ...

  • Preparing for a Data Scientist Interview in a Structured Way

    Posted on Friday, September 2, 2022 by CareersinAudit.comNo comments

    Competitive success in many industries is becoming increasingly dependent on the ability of businesses to exploit data science. With the growing importance of data science there has been a corresponding expansion in both the hard and soft skills expected of Data Scientists. There are numerous websites which provide long unstructured lists of example interview questions. Rather than repeat these, ...