The Information Technology and Cybersecurity job roles below highlights the Tasks, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities IT & Cybersecurity professionals should acquire, possess and perform, based on the NIST Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) – https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/nice/nice-framework-resource-center/. The NICE Framework establishes a common lexicon that categorizes and describes Information Technology and Cybersecurity related work, and what IT/IS professionals need to know and be able to do to successfully perform their job activities. The competency areas are categorized into:
Tasks: The description of the work activities directed towards the achievement of the organizational objectives. Tasks includes the associated Knowledge and Skills that represent the potential to perform those tasks.
Knowledge: The description of a retrievable set of concepts from a worker’s memory.
Skills: The description of a worker’s capacity to perform an observable action.
