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Information Security Analyst in New York

56 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 28 employers · largest 14% of it

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 56 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

What it costs

Exam and application fees plus typical self-study hours. Almost nobody needs every credential on this list — start with the top line.

Most-asked-for, on its own
$749CISSP · ~300 hrs
asked for in 8 of 56 postings — 14%
If you earned all 4 of them
$4,457
fees checked 2026-08
1060 hrs
1060 hours — over a year at 10 hrs/wk

Not in the total: Bachelor's Degree — cost varies by institution.

Lower signal for this role

Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.

What the official taxonomy says

O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.

Education reported by people doing this job
53%reported bachelor’s degree
  • Bachelor’s degree53%
  • Post-baccalaureate certificate23%
  • Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree13%

Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed. Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

O*NET 15-1212.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100

What it pays

BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.

$86,860
10th percentile
$140,470
median
$216,280
90th percentile

Every credential above costs $4,457 — about 8 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anthropic · Ramp · Scale AI · Vercel · Datadog · Oscar Health · Stripe · Betterment · Braze · MongoDB · Robinhood · Alloy · Blink Health · Brex · City of New York · FanDuel · Farther · Figma · Harvey · Headway · Hinge Health · incident.io · Lyft · Modal · OpenAI · SoFi · Sonsoft Inc · Success Academy Charter Schools

The same role elsewhere

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