The Best-Paying IT Security Jobs of 2015

Nerval's Lobster writes: It's no secret that tech pros with extensive IT security backgrounds are in high demand, especially in the wake of last year's high-profile hacks of major companies such as Sony and Home Depot. Which security-related job pays the most? According to a new analysis of Dice salary data, a lead software security engineer can expect to earn an average of $233,333 in 2015, followed by a director of security, who can expect to earn $200,000. Nor are those outliers: Chief information security officers, directors of information security, and IT security consultants can all expect to earn close to $200,000, if not more. While many subfields of IT security prove quite lucrative, there are also other jobs that earn below the average for tech pros. Security analysts will make an average of $59,880 this year, for instance, while security installation technicians—because somebody needs to install the cameras and sensors—can expect to earn $31,680. Compare that to the average tech-pro salary of $89,450 in 2014, which is only expected to rise this year. According to a 2014 report from Global Knowledge and Penton, those armed with certifications such as CRISC, CISM, and CISA can expect to earn a healthy six figures a year.

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Re:Umm, yeah?

[Opportunist]

Why didn't your CISO step in?

We had a company try to pull that one on us, too. They even had the chuzpah to just fire up Nessus, create a report and dump it on us. And that was certainly not what was agreed on in the contract. When asked to show what else they did, they came up with a list of things they actually could have done, of course with no findings because "our security is so good"... and they would even have gotten away with it if it wasn't for our internal team to find a security hole just that time, and one that is SO damn blatant that anyone not faking it would have had to find it.

We still paid. It's horribly difficult to prove something like that in court. But I have a hunch that they are having a hard time getting more contracts. You see, word travels...