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NICE Framework
The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity defines the roles, skills, and knowledge needed across the industry. It’s designed to help you identify the right training and certifications for your current or desired role, mapped directly to SANS courses and GIAC certifications.
Find the Right Path Using the NICE Framework
The NICE Framework (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education Cybersecurity Workforce Framework) is a fundamental reference for describing and sharing information about cybersecurity work.
The Framework is designed to help you identify the right training and certifications for your current or desired cybersecurity role.
For more information on this framework and how it can assist you in finding the right cybersecurity training for you or your organisation, speak to a SANS representative.
Oversight & Governance (OG)
Provides leadership, management, direction, and advocacy so the organization may effectively manage cybersecurity-related risks to the enterprise and conduct cybersecurity work.
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Communications Security (COMSEC) Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for managing the Communications Security (COMSEC) resources of an organization.
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Cybersecurity Policy and Planning
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for developing and maintaining cybersecurity plans, strategy, and policy to support and align with organizational cybersecurity initiatives and regulatory compliance.
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Cybersecurity Workforce Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for developing cybersecurity workforce plans, assessments, strategies, and guidance, including cybersecurity-related staff training, education, and hiring processes. Makes adjustments in response to or in anticipation of changes to cybersecurity-related policy, technology, and staffing needs and requirements. Authors mandated workforce planning strategies to maintain compliance with legislation, regulation, and policy.
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Cybersecurity Curriculum Development
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for developing, planning, coordinating, and evaluating cybersecurity awareness, training, or education content, methods, and techniques based on instructional needs and requirements.
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Cybersecurity Instruction
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for developing and conducting cybersecurity awareness, training, or education.
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Cybersecurity Legal Advice
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for providing cybersecurity legal advice and recommendations, including monitoring related legislation and regulations.
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Executive Cybersecurity Leadership
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for establishing vision and direction for an organization's cybersecurity operations and resources and their impact on digital and physical spaces. Possesses authority to make and execute decisions that impact an organization broadly, including policy approval and stakeholder engagement.
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Privacy Compliance
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for developing and overseeing an organization’s privacy compliance program and staff, including establishing and managing privacy-related governance, policy, and incident response needs.
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Product Support Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for planning, estimating costs, budgeting, developing, implementing, and managing product support strategies in order to field and maintain the readiness and operational capability of systems and components.
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Program Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for managing the Communications Security (COMSEC) resources of an organization.
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Secure Project Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for overseeing and directly managing technology projects. Ensures cybersecurity is built into projects to protect the organization’s critical infrastructure and assets, reduce risk, and meet organizational goals. Tracks and communicates project status and demonstrates project value to the organization.
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Security Control Assessment
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for conducting independent comprehensive assessments of management, operational, and technical security controls and control enhancements employed within or inherited by a system to determine their overall effectiveness.
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Systems Security Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for managing the cybersecurity of a program, organization, system, or enclave.
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Technology Portfolio Management
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for managing a portfolio of technology investments that align with the overall needs of mission and enterprise priorities.
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Technology Program Auditing
NICE: Oversight and GovernanceResponsible for conducting evaluations of technology programs or their individual components to determine compliance with published standards.
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Design And Development (DD)
Conducts research, conceptualizes, designs, develops, and tests secure technology systems, including on perimeter and cloud-based networks.
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Cybersecurity Architecture (OPM 652)
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for ensuring that security requirements are adequately addressed in all aspects of enterprise architecture, including reference models, segment and solution architectures, and the resulting systems that protect and support organizational mission and business processes.
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Enterprise Architecture
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for developing and maintaining business, systems, and information processes to support enterprise mission needs. Develops technology rules and requirements that describe baseline and target architectures.
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Secure Software Development
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for developing, creating, modifying, and maintaining computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs.
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Secure Systems Development
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for the secure design, development, and testing of systems and the evaluation of system security throughout the systems development life cycle.
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Software Security Assessment
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for analyzing the security of new or existing computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs and delivering actionable results.
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Systems Requirement Planning
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for consulting with internal and external customers to evaluate and translate functional requirements and integrating security policies into technical solutions.
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Systems Testing and Evaluation
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for consulting with internal and external customers to evaluate and translate functional requirements and integrating security policies into technical solutions.
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Technology Research and Development
NICE: Design and DevelopmentResponsible for conducting software and systems engineering and software systems research to develop new capabilities with fully integrated cybersecurity. Conducts comprehensive technology research to evaluate potential vulnerabilities in cyberspace systems.
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Implementation & Operation (IO)
Provides implementation, administration, configuration, operation, and maintenance to ensure effective and efficient technology system performance and security.
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Data Analysis
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for analyzing data from multiple disparate sources to provide cybersecurity and privacy insight. Designs and implements custom algorithms, workflow processes, and layouts for complex, enterprise-scale data sets used for modeling, data mining, and research purposes.
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Database Administration
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for administering databases and data management systems that allow for the secure storage, query, protection, and utilization of data.
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Knowledge Management
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for managing and administering processes and tools to identify, document, and access an organization’s intellectual capital.
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Network Operations
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for planning, implementing, and operating network services and systems, including hardware and virtual environments.
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System Administrator
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for setting up and maintaining a system or specific components of a system in adherence with organizational security policies and procedures. Includes hardware and software installation, configuration, and updates; user account management; backup and recovery management; and security control implementation.
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Systems Security Analysis
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for developing and analyzing the integration, testing, operations, and maintenance of systems security. Prepares, performs, and manages the security aspects of implementing and operating a system.
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Technical Support
NICE: Implementation and OperationResponsible for providing technical support to customers who need assistance utilizing client-level hardware and software in accordance with established or approved organizational policies and processes.
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Protection & Defense (PD)
Protects against, identifies, and analyzes risks to technology systems or networks. Includes investigation of cybersecurity events or crimes related to technology systems and networks.
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Defensive Cybersecurity
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for analyzing data collected from various cybersecurity defense tools to mitigate risks.
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Digital Forensics
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for analyzing digital evidence from computer security incidents to derive useful information in support of system and network vulnerability mitigation.
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Incident Response
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for investigating, analyzing, and responding to network cybersecurity incidents.
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Infrastructure Support
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for testing, implementing, deploying, maintaining, and administering infrastructure hardware and software for cybersecurity.
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Insider Threat Analysis
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for identifying and assessing the capabilities and activities of cybersecurity insider threats; produces findings to help initialize and support law enforcement and counterintelligence activities and investigations.
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Threat Analysis
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating cybersecurity threat assessments. Develops cybersecurity indicators to maintain awareness of the status of the highly dynamic operating environment.
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Vulnerability Analysis
NICE: Protection and DefenseResponsible for assessing systems and networks to identify deviations from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy. Measure effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities.
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Investigation (IN)
Conducts national cybersecurity and cybercrime investigations, including the collection, management, and analysis of digital evidence.
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Cyber Crime Investigation
NICE: InvestigationResponsible for investigating cyberspace intrusion incidents and crimes. Applies tactics, techniques, and procedures for a full range of investigative tools and processes and appropriately balances the benefits of prosecution versus intelligence gathering.
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Digital Evidence Analysis (OPM 211)
NICE: InvestigationResponsible for identifying, collecting, examining, and preserving digital evidence using controlled and documented analytical and investigative techniques.
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