As a Digital Forensics Expert, you will need to master following:

• ICT network security risks
• ICT security standards
• apply reverse engineering
• computer forensics
• cyber attack counter-measures
• develop information security strategy
• gather data for forensic purposes
• identify ICT security risks
• identify ICT system weaknesses
• implement ICT network diagnostic tools
• information confidentiality
• manage IT security compliances
• manage data for legal matters
• penetration testing tool
• perform ICT security testing
• perform forensic preservations of digital devices
• provide ICT consulting advice
• query languages
• resource description framework query language
• secure sensitive customer's information
• use scripting programming

More generally, a digital forensics expert is also versed in:

• educate on data confidentiality
• use software for data preservation

It also helps to know the following:

• ICT encryption
• ICT security legislation
• LDAP
• LINQ
• MDX
• N1QL
• Nessus
• Nexpose
• SPARQL
• WhiteHat Sentinel
• XQuery
• analyse network configuration and performance
• cloud technologies
• collect cyber defence data
• data storage
• design computer network
• hardware architectures
• hardware platforms
• implement ICT safety policies
• information architecture
• information security strategy
• manage cloud data and storage
• perform data mining
• legal requirements of ICT products
• use different communication channels