Security professionals who are considering the potential direction for their private sector career often overlook certain functional areas. While considered part of a security leader’s portfolio, many of these less obvious choices offer a broad diversity of challenges. One of these areas found in almost every industry sector is investigations.
The investigations career space is growing globally due to a wide variety of reasons. Proliferation of individual bad behavior, growing fraud schemes, intelligence targeting, insider threats, corruption, distractions due to major disruptive events and crises and general lack of ethics in leadership all contribute to the expansion in investigative openings.