What other careers can you do?
Having a career as a security auditor prepares you for various other occupations. The combination of experiences you gain as a security auditor allows you to gain the expertise needed to provide consulting engagements. For example, as a security auditor, you regularly look at best practices and make recommendations for testing and control programs. Security auditors often go on to help lead governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs for organizations, using their auditor experience to highlight and remediate deficiencies in making laws and regulations and internal requirements. Another potentially exciting career pivot for an auditor would be as a penetration and vulnerability tester.
Other subspecialties include secure software assessor or security control assessor, which might be more prominent in the government or government contractor space.
