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Information Security Analyst in New York

44 postings read · sampled 2026-08-02 · source ats

What employers actually ask for

Credentials named in the 44 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.

  • CISSPISC2
    16%
    7 of 44 postings$749 exam · fee checked 2026-08~300 hrs prepISC2 →
  • OSCPOffSec
    11%
    5 of 44 postings$1,749 exam · fee checked 2026-08~400 hrs prepOffSec →
  • CEHEC-Council
    7%
    3 of 44 postings$1,199 exam · fee checked 2026-08~160 hrs prepEC-Council →

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 7 of 44 postings — 16%
If you earned all 3 of them
$3,697
fees checked 2026-08
860 hrs
860 hours — over a year at 10 hrs/wk

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 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 $3,697 — about 7 days' pay at the median.

Who was hiring

Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.

Anthropic · Scale AI · Ramp · Vercel · Datadog · Harvey · MongoDB · Betterment · Braze · Stripe · Brex · Chime · Figma · Modal · OpenAI · Peloton · Robinhood · SoFi

The same role elsewhere

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