ICT Security Specialist (ANZSCO 262112)

On the Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is ICT Security Specialist on?

MLTSSL — Medium and Long-term Strategic Skills List. The widest list — occupations on the MLTSSL can access the points-tested permanent skilled visas including the Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189), which needs no state nomination or employer.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for ICT Security Specialist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

ACS places ICT Security Specialist on its general IT occupations page, not the separate dedicated cyber security page the five newer 262114-262118 codes sit on, and its definition is broad and generalist: establishing, managing and administering an organisation's ICT security policy and procedures to minimise internal and external threats. It is the only MLTSSL-listed security code in the whole family, and the older, native 262xxx description ACS uses for it is a different structural category from the ABS-derived descriptions the newer cyber codes carry.

Where these applications come unstuck

The costly mistake is visa-shaped, not duty-shaped. This code reaches the points-tested 189 and state and regional nomination routes, but carries NO 482 or 186 employer-sponsored access at all, unlike almost every other code in the family. An applicant with an employer willing to sponsor who assumes a general security role reaches 482 the way most ICT codes do would be planning around a route this specific code cannot use.

An honest read on this pathway

Genuinely open to 189, 190, 491, 494, 407 and 485, but structurally closed to direct-employer sponsorship. It is also one of only four codes in this 17-occupation family absent from South Australia's combined DAMA occupation list, despite sitting under the same general ICT Professionals heading that lists most of its siblings. An applicant with a sponsoring employer and duties that genuinely fit this description needs to look elsewhere in the family, or at a different visa route entirely, because 482 and 186 are not on the table for this code.

Assembling an ACS application? ACS wants employment evidence that lines up exactly with the dates and duties you claim elsewhere. The Skilled Visa EOI Organiser keeps your claims consistent across the skills assessment, EOI and Form 80 — inconsistencies between them are a common cause of delay.

Talk it through with a registered agent

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