Re:Tech Giants Brace for Europe’s New Data Privacy Rules
by toomuchtodo on Monday January 29, 2018 @11:22AM
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Spot on! I moved from infrastructure engineer to risk management (governance, risk, compliance). You need the technical experience to translate compliance and governance requirements into technical requirements.
Highly recommend the move for anyone who doesn’t want to be on call or carry a pager anymore.
With internal audit you're generally overseeing the compliance folks (from a distance), as a compliance person you're more often implementing the technology yourself. Another role to look into is risk management. All of them are a small step back from "hard" IT like sysadmin or programming and getting more into the people and process side of the IT house.