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Item UNDERSTANDING THE KEY SKILLS FOR INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGERS A DELPHI METHOD STUDY(2022-02-25) HAQAF, Husam; KOYUNCU, MuratInformation Security Management (ISM) is a necessity for all institutions and enterprises that consider their information as valuable assets. Therefore, developing, auditing and managing information security is dependent on professional talent that could achieve the required information security governance. The research seeks the key skills for information security managers that are required to maintain competency in the domain, as well as methods to acquire these skills through professional certifications. The study adopts a Delphi method, which requires building a set of items through a literature survey and involves experts with minimum expertise to modify the list until a consensus on less than 20% of the items is reached. After performing a literature survey of the Information Security’s standards, frameworks and studies, in addition to a data collection round by the experts, a total of 82 skills under 5 categories were compiled. The results of the study shortlisted 19.51% of the items with minimum mean score of 3.25 on a 7-point Likert scale through relevance and ranking rounds, as recommended by studies on the Delphi method. Moreover, 43.75% of the final items are core information security skills, and certifications including CISSP, CISA and CISM are recommended to acquire them.