NICE-aligned workforce readiness
The NICE Framework defines what your cybersecurity roles require. Infosec maps training directly to NICE Work Roles and their Task, Knowledge and Skill (TKS) statements. From there, we verify your team can perform what the framework demands.
The NICE Framework
The NICE Framework organizes cybersecurity work into a consistent structure recognized across public, private and academic sectors. It defines:
- Work Role Categories: 5 high-level groupings of cybersecurity functions
- Work Roles: Specific responsibilities someone is accountable for
- TKS Statements: The tasks, knowledge and skills defining what that work requires
- Competency Areas: Clusters of knowledge and skill that reflect capability in a given domain
NICE Work Role Categories
Training mapped across all five Work Role Categories
Infosec offers training across the NICE Framework. Learn how this framework organizes cybersecurity work and where Infosec supports development in each area.
Oversight and Governance (OG)
Provides leadership, management, direction and advocacy so the organization may effectively manage cybersecurity-related risks to the enterprise and conduct cybersecurity work.
Design and Development (DD)
Conducts research, conceptualizes, designs, develops and tests secure technology systems, including on perimeter and cloud-based networks.
Implementation and Operation (IO)
Provides implementation, administration, configuration, operation and maintenance to ensure effective and efficient technology system performance and security.
Protection and 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.
Investigation (IN)
Collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates information from all sources of intelligence on foreign actors' cyberspace programs, intentions, capabilities, research and development and operational activities.
How Infosec maps to NICE
Training built around the framework
Infosec Skills courses map to more than 620 unique NICE Knowledge and Skills Statements. You can browse training by Work Role or by individual K/S statements and assign development based on what each role actually requires.
When you need to move faster, Skills Navigator does the heavy lifting. Enter a job description, task list or desired skillset. Then, Skills Navigator uses AI to match it against NICE K/S Statements and build a custom training plan in seconds, pulling from hundreds of learning paths across 1,800+ courses.
“We regularly leverage the NICE Knowledge and Skill Statement mapping inside the Infosec Skills platform to maximize training relevancy and accelerate professional development.”
James “Slim” Beamon
Dean of the CyberEDGE Academy and senior cybersecurity program manager at Leidos
From alignment to verification
NICE defines the work. Infosec SkillSight™ verifies your team can perform it.
Infosec SkillSight uses patent-pending AI to measure real-time behavioral signals during hands-on, role-based assessments. See how your team approaches and solves problems, compared against a database of other cybersecurity practitioners. Rather than simply reporting course completion, you'll get results mapped to proficiency around NICE micro-skills, providing objective evidence of team strengths and areas to improve.
- CISOs get audit-ready workforce risk insight and the data to make defensible decisions.
- Managers can identify high-risk gaps with a NICE-aligned skills matrix and track progress as gaps close.
- Practitioners see exactly how their micro-skills measure against role requirements.
See your team’s readiness against the NICE Framework
Whether you’re defining role requirements, closing skills gaps or preparing for an audit, Infosec gives you training and verified evidence to back it up.