The National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework provides a blueprint to categorize, organize, and describe cybersecurity work into Specialty Areas, Work Roles, tasks, and knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs). The Workforce Framework provides a common language to speak about cyber roles and jobs and helps define personal requirements in cybersecurity.
The Workforce Framework organizes cybersecurity into seven high-level Categories, each comprised of several Specialty Areas, with Work Roles specific to each Specialty Area.
Framework Categories
Within the Framework, there are seven Categories, each comprising of several Specialty Areas. This organizing structure is based on extensive job analyses that groups together work and workers that share common major functions, regardless of job titles or other occupational terms.