Cloud security tops among list of skills needed to pursue cyber career A woman speaking on a mobile phone walks past a cloud computing presentation ahead of the CeBIT technology trade fair in 2012. Current and aspiring cybersecurity professionals named cloud security among the top most important skills to possess if youâre looking to join the cyber workforce today. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Current and aspiring cybersecurity professionals named cloud security, data analysis and coding/programming as the top three most important skills to possess if youâre looking to join the cyber workforce today. Those findings came from a new survey-based research report from the International Information System Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)². For its âCybersecurity Career Pursuers Study,â the non-profit organization polled 1,024 cybersecurity pros across the U.S. and Canada, along with 1,010 cybersecurity jobseekers looking to land their first position. Twenty-five percent of the former group and 19% of the latter group said cloud security was one of the two most important technical skills or concepts to learn.