A guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) cybersecurity workforce framework (2.0) / Dan Shoemaker, Anne Kohnke, Ken Sigler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cybersecurity: defining competencies for the cybersecurity workforce and two frameworks -- Introduction: defining the cybersecurity workforce -- Creating standard competencies for cybersecurity work -- Implementing standard cybersecurity -- The nice cybersecurity workforce framework and how it maps to the CFS framework -- Securely provision -- Operate and maintain -- Protect and defend: description of standard roles and KSAs -- Investigate -- Collect and operate and analyze general knowledge areas -- Oversee and govern -- Applying the NICE model to the real world.

Presenting a comprehensive discussion of the tasks, knowledge, skill, and ability (KSA) requirements of the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 2.0, this book details the relationship between the NICE framework and the NIST{OCLCbr#92}s cybersecurity framework (CSF), showing how the NICE model specifies what the particular specialty areas of the workforce should be doing in order to ensure that the CSF{OCLCbr#92}s identification, protection, defense, response, or recovery functions are being carried out properly. -- Edited summary from book.