There is a surprising number of title variations among people who work in the field that I call “information security.” I browsed through various job-search sites to get a feel for the more frequently-seen titles and created a random information security job title generator. Just for fun.

The titles I encountered were generally a permutation of the following terms:

This word set can produce over 6,000 titles such as:

• Senior Security Systems Architect
• Principal Application Security Operations Engineer
• Chief Information Security Manager
• Enterprise Risk Consultant
• Information Security Program Officer

Not all word combinations make sense, but you get the idea. I used a subset of these words to create the random information security job title generator. It can produce a couple of thousand titles, displaying 8 of them at a time.

Have you seen any other words used in “information security” titles? Have you encountered any weird ones in the wild? Leave a comment.

— Lenny Zeltser

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