💡 Why it matters: AI can now make convincing fake photos, voices and videos in minutes. Analysts help platforms, newsrooms and the public tell what is real and slow the spread of false stories.
🌍 Around the world
- United States: Jobs for information security analysts are projected to grow 21% from 2025 to 2035, much faster than average (US Bureau of Labor Statistics).
💰 What it can pay
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Starting out
- ₦1.5M – ₦4M
- Mid-career
- ₦4M – ₦10M
- Senior
- ₦10M – ₦22M
≈ ₦333k – ₦833k a month mid-career. Indicative estimate by Incusim.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Closest National Careers Service profile: IT security co-ordinator. Typical starter to experienced salary. National Careers Service, 2026
🇺🇸 United States
Closest US category: Information security analysts. Median pay; low and high are the 10th and 90th percentiles.. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025
🇨🇦 Canada
Closest Job Bank occupation: Cybersecurity analyst. Hourly wage low and high x 2,080 hours (no national median shown). Job Bank (Government of Canada), 2023-2024
Yearly pay before tax. UK, US and Canada figures come from the official sources named on each card. Nigeria has no official salary survey, so those are our indicative estimates. Real pay depends on the employer, the place, your skills and experience.
🛠️ What you actually do
- Examine images, audio and video for signs of AI editing or faking
- Trace where a false story started and how it spread online
- Use detection tools, but also check sources and context by hand
- Write clear reports for platforms, newsrooms or security teams
- Help decide whether content should be labelled, limited or removed
⚡ Skills you'll need
- Critical thinking
- Attention to detail
- Research and fact checking
- Clear writing
- Technical curiosity
Get ready at school
🇳🇬 Nigeria
- Fact-checking or newsroom verification roles
- Entry roles in IT security or trust and safety teams
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- Fact-checking or open-source research roles in a newsroom
- Starting in a trust and safety or security operations team
🇺🇸 United States
- Starting in trust and safety, content review or IT security
- Fact-checking or newsroom verification jobs
🇨🇦 Canada
- Fact-checking or newsroom verification roles
- Starting in IT support, security or trust and safety teams
🗺️ Your path to this career
- 1Practise checking sources and questioning what you see online
- 2Learn how images, video and AI tools work, and basic coding
- 3Study computer science, cyber security, journalism or a related subject
- 4Practise verification on public examples and join fact-checking projects
- 5Join a platform, newsroom or security team and keep up with new tools
⏰ A day in the life
A video of a local leader saying something shocking is spreading fast. You check the audio for odd gaps, look up where the clip first appeared and find the original, calmer footage. You write a short report for the platform team so they can add a warning label before more people share it.