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A Guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (2.0) presents a comprehensive discussion of the NICE framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It discusses in detail the relationship between the NIC
List of contents
Introduction: Defining the Cybersecurity Workforce. Creating Standard Competencies for Cybersecurity Work. Implementing Standard Cybersecurity. Securely Provision General Knowledge Area. Operate and Maintain General Knowledge Area. Protect and Defend General Knowledge Area. Investigate General Knowledge Area. Collect and Operate and Analyze General Knowledge Areas. Oversee and Govern General Knowledge Area. Applying the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Model to the Real World.
About the author
Daniel P Shoemaker, PhD, is principal investigator and senior research scientist at the University of Detroit Mercy's Center for Cyber Security and Intelligence Studies. Dan has served 30 years as a professor at UDM with 25 of those years as department chair. He served as a co-chair for both the Workforce Training and Education and the Software and Supply Chain Assurance Initiatives for the Department of Homeland Security, and was a subject matter expert for the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework 2.0. Dan has coauthored six books in the field of cybersecurity and has authored more than one hundred journal publications. Dan earned his PhD from the University of Michigan.
Anne Kohnke, PhD, is an assistant professor of IT at Lawrence Technological University and teaches courses in both the information technology and organization development/change management disciplines at the bachelor through doctorate levels. Anne started as an adjunct professor in 2002 and joined the faculty full time in 2011. Her IT career started in the mid-1980s on a help desk, and over the years, Anne developed technical proficiency as a database administrator, network administrator, systems analyst, and technical project manager. After a decade, Anne was promoted to management and worked as an IT director, vice president of IT and chief information security officer (CISO). Anne earned her PhD from Benedictine University.
Ken Sigler is a faculty member of the Computer Information Systems (CIS) program at the Auburn Hills campus of Oakland Community College in Michigan. His primary research is in the areas of software management, software assurance, and cloud computing. He developed the college's CIS program option entitled "Information Technologies for Homeland Security." Until 2007, Ken served as the liaison for the college to the International Cybersecurity Education Coalition (ICSEC), of which he is one of three founding members. Ken is a member of IEEE, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), and the Association for Information Systems (AIS).
Summary
A Guide to the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (2.0) presents a comprehensive discussion of the NICE framework, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It discusses in detail the relationship between the NIC
