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Security Compliance Manager

Security and resilience, a mid-level role

What does Security Compliance Manager do?

Translates frameworks, regulations and customer requirements into defensible security programs and controls, and produces the evidence that auditors and customers ask for.

What it decides: Which controls satisfy which requirement, and whether the evidence is ready for an audit.

The competencies employers name

  • Control design and operating-effectiveness testingcore, depth expected

    Maps risks to preventive, detective and corrective controls, then tests design and operation with samples, evidence and defensible findings.

    12 graded topics teach this

  • Framework crosswalking without false equivalencecore, depth expected

    Compares the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001 and sector rules by intent and control objective, and says where they do not overlap.

    5 graded topics teach this

  • Evidence collection and audit-ready documentationcore, depth expected

    Collects, labels and preserves the evidence that a control operated, a decision was made, and a claim can be defended to an auditor or regulator.

    20 graded topics teach this

  • Regulatory change managementrequired, working knowledge

    Spots a regulatory change, decides applicability, assigns actions, updates controls and keeps the implementation evidence.

    7 graded topics teach this

  • AI security fundamentalsrequired, working knowledge

    Understands prompt injection, data poisoning, model theft, insecure integrations and excessive agent privileges, and the controls that reduce each.

    17 graded topics teach this

  • ISO/IEC 42001 management systemsrequired, working knowledge

    Builds and audits an AI management system: context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, improvement and the Annex A controls.

    3 graded topics teach this

  • Data classification, access and retentionrequired, working knowledge

    Classifies information, applies least privilege, sets retention and acceptable-use rules, and controls what may enter a prompt, a log or an embedding.

    19 graded topics teach this

  • AI policy and standards writingpreferred, working knowledge

    Writes policies with scope, responsibilities, requirements, exceptions and evidence, so people can follow them and auditors can test them.

    10 graded topics teach this

  • AI vendor due diligence and third-party riskpreferred, working knowledge

    Tiers vendors by use and impact, requests evidence instead of promises, tests in the customer's context, and plans monitoring and exit.

    5 graded topics teach this

Where it is taught

Counted from the graded topics that teach this role's competencies. Your own path is shorter: it skips what you already cover.

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Roles that feed into it

  • Security Compliance Analyst
  • IT Auditor
  • GRC Analyst
  • Security Engineer with audit exposure

Where it leads

What postings tend to name

Frameworks: SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST CSF, ISO/IEC 42001.

Credentials often listed: CISA, CISSP, CGRC, ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer. GAGE does not issue these and does not prepare for their exams; the record you earn here is your own graded evidence, which stands beside them.

Questions

How does ISO/IEC 42001 relate to a security compliance program?
It uses the same management-system structure as ISO/IEC 27001, so an organization that runs an ISMS already has the discipline the AI management system needs. The new part is the AI-specific controls and the risk assessment of models and data.
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