Cyberspace Effects
CE-WRL-002
Cyber Operations Planning
Responsible for developing cybersecurity operations plans; participating in targeting selection, validation, and synchronization; and enabling integration during the execution of cyber actions.
- T0630: Incorporate intelligence equities into the overall design of cyber operations plans
- T0704: Incorporate cyber operations and communications security support plans into organization objectives
- T0718: Identify intelligence gaps and shortfalls
- T0734: Issue requests for information
- T0741: Maintain situational awareness of cyber-related intelligence requirements and associated tasking
- T0742: Maintain situational awareness of partner capabilities and activities
- T1020: Determine the operational and safety impacts of cybersecurity lapses
- T1023: Identify critical technology procurement requirements
- T1033: Support cyber operations
- T1036: Integrate leadership priorities
- T1037: Develop operations strategies
- T1038: Integrate organization objectives in intelligence collection
- T1043: Determine staffing needs
- T1044: Review course of action analysis results
- T1045: Review exercise analysis results
- T1046: Assess operation performance
- T1047: Assess operation impact
- T1048: Synchronize operational assessment procedures and critical information requirement processes
- T1054: Scope analysis reports to various audiences that accounts for data sharing classification restrictions
- T1055: Determine if priority information requirements are satisfied
- T1456: Determine the impact of threats on cybersecurity
- T1457: Implement threat countermeasures
- T1639: Assess target vulnerabilities and operational capabilities
- T1644: Develop cyber operations indicators
- T1650: Develop cybersecurity success metrics
- T1678: Develop cyber operations crisis action plans
- T1679: Develop organizational decision support tools
- T1688: Identify strategies to counter potential target actions
- T1699: Develop crisis plans
- T1700: Maintain crisis plans
- T1701: Integrate cyber operations guidance into broader planning activities
- T1704: Develop intelligence operations plans
- T1710: Develop policies for providing and obtaining cyber operations support from external partners
- T1712: Recommend potential courses of action
- T1717: Recommend changes to planning policies and procedures
- T1718: Implement changes to planning policies and procedures
- T1722: Prepare cyber operation strategy and planning documents
- T1728: Implement collection operation plans
- T1729: Synchronize intelligence planning activities with operational planning timelines
- T1735: Facilitate interactions between internal and external partner decision makers to synchronize and integrate courses of action
- T1752: Develop courses of action based on threat factors
- T1755: Integrate cyber planning and targeting efforts
- T1756: Interpret environment preparation assessments
- T1761: Determine if changes to the operating environment require review of the plan
- T1764: Assess effectiveness of integrated cyber operations
- T1779: Coordinate strategic planning efforts with internal and external partners
- T1794: Develop cyber operations strategies
- T1797: Advise stakeholders on administrative and logistical elements of operational support plans
- T1800: Recommend changes to operational plans
- T1810: Approve operational requirements for research, development, and acquisition of cyber capabilities
- T1811: Prioritize operational requirements for research, development, and acquisition of cyber capabilities
- T1812: Submit operational requirements for research, development, and acquisition of cyber capabilities
- T1822: Submit requests for deconfliction of cyber operations
- T1823: Respond to requests for deconfliction of cyber operations
- T1835: Determine if intelligence requirements and collection plans are accurate and up-to-date
- T1836: Document lessons learned during events and exercises
- K0480: Knowledge of malware
- K0498: Knowledge of operational planning processes
- K0644: Knowledge of cybersecurity operation policies and procedures
- K0674: Knowledge of computer networking protocols
- K0675: Knowledge of risk management processes
- K0676: Knowledge of cybersecurity laws and regulations
- K0677: Knowledge of cybersecurity policies and procedures
- K0678: Knowledge of privacy laws and regulations
- K0679: Knowledge of privacy policies and procedures
- K0680: Knowledge of cybersecurity principles and practices
- K0681: Knowledge of privacy principles and practices
- K0682: Knowledge of cybersecurity threats
- K0683: Knowledge of cybersecurity vulnerabilities
- K0684: Knowledge of cybersecurity threat characteristics
- K0689: Knowledge of network infrastructure principles and practices
- K0698: Knowledge of cryptographic key management principles and practices
- K0718: Knowledge of network communications principles and practices
- K0719: Knowledge of human-computer interaction (HCI) principles and practices
- K0751: Knowledge of system threats
- K0752: Knowledge of system vulnerabilities
- K0766: Knowledge of data asset management principles and practices
- K0773: Knowledge of telecommunications principles and practices
- K0784: Knowledge of insider threat laws and regulations
- K0785: Knowledge of insider threat tools and techniques
- K0786: Knowledge of physical computer components
- K0787: Knowledge of computer peripherals
- K0792: Knowledge of network configurations
- K0799: Knowledge of project management principles and practices
- K0800: Knowledge of evidence admissibility laws and regulations
- K0806: Knowledge of machine virtualization tools and techniques
- K0812: Knowledge of digital communication systems and software
- K0818: Knowledge of new and emerging cybersecurity risks
- K0819: Knowledge of import and export control laws and regulations
- K0820: Knowledge of supply chain risks
- K0821: Knowledge of federal agency roles and responsibilities
- K0825: Knowledge of threat vector characteristics
- K0831: Knowledge of network attack vectors
- K0834: Knowledge of technology procurement principles and practices
- K0857: Knowledge of malware analysis tools and techniques
- K0858: Knowledge of virtual machine detection tools and techniques
- K0865: Knowledge of data classification standards and best practices
- K0866: Knowledge of data classification tools and techniques
- K0892: Knowledge of cyber defense laws and regulations
- K0899: Knowledge of crisis management protocols
- K0900: Knowledge of crisis management processes
- K0901: Knowledge of crisis management tools and techniques
- K0915: Knowledge of network architecture principles and practices
- K0916: Knowledge of malware analysis principles and practices
- K0925: Knowledge of wireless communication tools and techniques
- K0926: Knowledge of signal jamming tools and techniques
- K0934: Knowledge of data classification policies and procedures
- K0942: Knowledge of cryptology principles and practices
- K0959: Knowledge of operational design principles and practices
- K0960: Knowledge of content management system (CMS) capabilities and applications
- K0961: Knowledge of planning systems and software
- K0969: Knowledge of cyber-attack tools and techniques
- K0978: Knowledge of intelligence collection planning processes
- K0983: Knowledge of computer networking principles and practices
- K0984: Knowledge of web security principles and practices
- K0985: Knowledge of crisis action plan models and frameworks
- K0990: Knowledge of cyber operations principles and practices
- K0993: Knowledge of deconfliction processes
- K1008: Knowledge of intelligence support activities
- K1009: Knowledge of threat intelligence principles and practices
- K1011: Knowledge of network addressing principles and practices
- K1014: Knowledge of network security principles and practices
- K1017: Knowledge of operational effectiveness assessment principles and practices
- K1019: Knowledge of operations security (OPSEC) principles and practices
- K1020: Knowledge of organization decision support tools and techniques
- K1023: Knowledge of network exploitation tools and techniques
- K1024: Knowledge of partnership policies and procedures
- K1025: Knowledge of decision-making policies and procedures
- K1028: Knowledge of target development principles and practices
- K1030: Knowledge of operational planning tools and techniques
- K1035: Knowledge of target research tools and techniques
- K1036: Knowledge of target organization structures
- K1037: Knowledge of target critical capabilities
- K1038: Knowledge of target critical vulnerabilities
- K1049: Knowledge of routing protocols
- K1050: Knowledge of critical information requirements
- K1054: Knowledge of red team functions and capabilities
- K1063: Knowledge of operation assessment processes
- K1065: Knowledge of network operations principles and practices
- K1066: Knowledge of threat behaviors
- K1067: Knowledge of target behaviors
- K1069: Knowledge of virtual machine tools and technologies
- K1100: Knowledge of analytical tools and techniques
- K1101: Knowledge of analytics
- K1109: Knowledge of virtual collaborative workspace tools and techniques
- S0186: Skill in applying crisis planning procedures
- S0385: Skill in communicating complex concepts
- S0414: Skill in evaluating laws
- S0415: Skill in evaluating regulations
- S0416: Skill in evaluating policies
- S0430: Skill in collaborating with others
- S0431: Skill in applying critical thinking
- S0432: Skill in coordinating cybersecurity operations across an organization
- S0438: Skill in functioning effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- S0439: Skill in identifying external partners
- S0472: Skill in developing virtual machines
- S0473: Skill in maintaining virtual machines
- S0493: Skill in determining intelligence support requirements
- S0497: Skill in developing client organization profiles
- S0498: Skill in managing an intelligence collection plan
- S0501: Skill in developing crisis action plans
- S0515: Skill in identifying partner capabilities
- S0526: Skill in initiating planning activities
- S0527: Skill in developing crisis action timelines
- S0537: Skill in designing wireless communications systems
- S0540: Skill in identifying network threats
- S0579: Skill in preparing reports
- S0600: Skill in collecting relevant data from a variety of sources
- S0610: Skill in communicating effectively
- S0686: Skill in performing risk assessments
- S0687: Skill in performing administrative planning activities
- S0707: Skill in developing comprehensive cyber operations assessment programs
- S0708: Skill in executing comprehensive cyber operations assessment programs
- S0709: Skill in developing analytics
- S0712: Skill in evaluating data source quality
- S0713: Skill in evaluating information quality
- S0728: Skill in preparing briefings
- S0729: Skill in preparing plans
- S0756: Skill in incorporating feedback
- S0763: Skill in assessing cyber operations
- S0769: Skill in defining progress indicators
- S0770: Skill in defining success indicators
- S0776: Skill in distinguishing between notional and actual resources
- S0779: Skill in determining information requirements
- S0782: Skill in determining capability estimates
- S0783: Skill in creating decision support materials
- S0784: Skill in implementing established procedures
- S0785: Skill in interpreting planning guidance
- S0788: Skill in orchestrating planning teams
- S0789: Skill in coordinating collection support
- S0790: Skill in monitoring status
- S0791: Skill in presenting to an audience
- S0800: Skill in analyzing organizational patterns and relationships
- S0801: Skill in assessing partner operations capabilities
- S0817: Skill in building internal and external relationships
Source: Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST SP 800-181 Rev 1) (Version: 1.0.0)