Editor’s Note: Draft SP 800-181, “NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF): National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education” is available here. Comments are due to NIST by January 6, 2017.
From: Phys.org
The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework provides building blocks for a trained workforce. Credit: Natasha Hanacek/NIST
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a resource that will help U.S. employers more effectively identify, recruit, develop and maintain cybersecurity talent. The draft NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) provides a common language to categorize and describe cybersecurity work to help organizations build a strong staff to protect their systems and data. It was announced today at the 2016 NICE Conference and Expo.
Cybersecurity is still a nascent and rapidly developing field in which job titles and role descriptions vary from organization to organization and sector to sector. The NCWF can be viewed as a cybersecurity workforce dictionary that will help organizations define and share information in a detailed, consistent and descriptive way.
Leave a Reply