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NICE Framework Competency Areas

Competency Areas are clusters of related Knowledge and Skill statements that correlate with one’s capability to perform Tasks in a particular domain. They can be used in conjunction with Work Roles or on their own and assist with the following:

Help learners discover areas of interest

Inform career planning and development

Identify gaps for knowledge and skills development

Assess/demonstrate a learner’s capabilities

Expand each Competency Area below to learn more.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-001

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to define, manage, and monitor the roles and secure access privileges of who is authorized to access protected data and resources and understand the impact of different types of access controls.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-002

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to secure Artificial Intelligence (AI) against cyberattacks, to ensure it is adequately contained where it is used, and to mitigate the threat AI presents where it or its users have malicious intent

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-003

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to conduct and maintain an accurate inventory of all digital assets, to include identifying, developing, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-004

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to protect cloud data, applications, and infrastructure from internal and external threats.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-005

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to secure the transmissions, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of communications and related network infrastructures.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-006

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to transform data using cryptographic processes to ensure it can only be read by the person who is authorized to access it.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-007

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capability related to architecting, designing, developing, implementing, and maintaining the trustworthiness of systems that use or are enabled by cyber resources in order to anticipate, withstand, recover from, and adapt to adverse conditions, stresses, attacks, or compromises.

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NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-008

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to integrate security as a shared responsibility throughout the development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) life cycle of technologies.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-009

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to install, administer, troubleshoot, backup, and conduct recovery of Operating Systems (OS), including in simulated environments.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-010

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to improve and maintain the security of Operational Technology (OT) systems while addressing their unique performance, reliability, and safety requirements.

NICE Framework ID: NF-COM-011

This Competency Area describes a learner’s capabilities to analyze and control digital and physical risks presented by technology products or services purchased from parties outside your organization.

The NICE Framework data used for this tool is from the NICE Framework Components version 2.0.0.