NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework
Understanding Cybersecurity Workforce Roles: The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, co-developed by DHS, provides a blueprint to categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work into seven Categories.
Seven Cybersecurity Workforce
Specialty Areas
Each Category is comprised of several Specialty Areas, which outline knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) needed to fulfill cybersecurity work roles.
Many people are aware that hundreds of thousands of cybersecurity positions in America are currently unfilled. However, very few people know how broad and varied the field of cybersecurity actually is and how to construct a workforce that meets their mission goals. The NICE Framework categorizes and describes cybersecurity work. The online searchable resource for the NICE Framework allows workforce developers, educators, and job seekers to explore specific work roles and knowledge, skills and abilities that are tied to each work role. This tutorial webinar will walk through the NICE Framework website and explore how to navigate the various work roles and associated links.
The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NICE Framework) is the blueprint to categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work. It was developed in partnership with the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE), the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide educators, students, employers, employees, training providers, and policy makers with a systematic and consistent way to organize the way we think and talk about cybersecurity work, and to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to perform cybersecurity tasks.
The NICE Framework is a blueprint to categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work into Categories, Specialty Areas, Work Roles Tasks, and Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs). It provides a common language to speak about cyber roles and jobs and can be referenced by those who wish to define professional requirements in cybersecurity.
The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework is a national-focused resource that categorizes and describes cybersecurity work..
The materials within Mission Critical Institute’s CCRMP bootcamps, programs, and courses focus on the Knowledge Skills and Abilities (KSAs) identified within the National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework specialty areas.
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NICE Framework), published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in NIST Special Publication 800-181, is a nationally focused resource that establishes a taxonomy and common lexicon to describe cybersecurity work, and workers, regardless of where, or for whom the work is performed.
In addition a mapping between the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) Knowledge Units (KUs) and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Workforce Framework 2.0 has initially been developed, aligning all government related Cyber Security Education and Cyber Security Workforce initiatives.
