Cyberspace Effects
CE-WRL-004
Mission Assessment
Responsible for developing assessment plans and performance measures; conducting strategic and operational effectiveness assessments for cyber events; determining whether systems perform as expected; and providing input to the determination of operational effectiveness.
- T0611: Conduct end-of-operations assessments
- T0624: Conduct target research and analysis
- T0684: Estimate operational effects generated through cyber activities
- T0685: Evaluate threat decision-making processes
- T0686: Identify threat vulnerabilities
- T0707: Generate requests for information
- T0718: Identify intelligence gaps and shortfalls
- T1020: Determine the operational and safety impacts of cybersecurity lapses
- T1022: Review enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives
- T1030: Estimate the impact of collateral damage
- T1033: Support cyber operations
- T1035: Determine how threat activity groups employ encryption to support their operations
- T1046: Assess operation performance
- T1047: Assess operation impact
- T1053: Identify and characterize intrusion activities against a victim or target
- T1054: Scope analysis reports to various audiences that accounts for data sharing classification restrictions
- T1055: Determine if priority information requirements are satisfied
- T1638: Recommend cyber operation targets
- T1640: Determine effectiveness of intelligence collection operations
- T1641: Recommend adjustments to intelligence collection strategies
- T1642: Advise stakeholders on course of action development
- T1643: Develop common operational pictures
- T1644: Develop cyber operations indicators
- T1645: Coordinate all-source collection activities
- T1646: Validate all-source collection requirements and plans
- T1647: Develop priority information requirements
- T1648: Develop performance success metrics
- T1651: Prepare threat and target briefings
- T1652: Prepare threat and target situational updates
- T1661: Assess all-source data for intelligence or vulnerability value
- T1686: Identify intelligence requirements
- T1707: Prepare munitions effectiveness assessment reports
- T1762: Modify collection requirements
- T1763: Determine effectiveness of collection requirements
- T1765: Monitor changes to designated cyber operations warning problem sets
- T1766: Prepare change reports for designated cyber operations warning problem sets
- T1767: Monitor threat activities
- T1768: Prepare threat activity reports
- T1770: Report on adversarial activities that fulfill priority information requirements
- T1772: Identify indications and warnings of target communication changes or processing failures
- T1775: Prepare cyber operations intelligence reports
- T1776: Prepare indications and warnings intelligence reports
- T1792: Assess effectiveness of intelligence production
- T1793: Assess effectiveness of intelligence reporting
- T1795: Conduct post-action effectiveness assessments
- T1835: Determine if intelligence requirements and collection plans are accurate and up-to-date
- K0018: Knowledge of encryption algorithms
- K0480: Knowledge of malware
- K0551: Knowledge of targeting cycles
- K0655: Knowledge of intelligence fusion
- K0658: Knowledge of cognitive biases
- 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
- K0690: Knowledge of requirements analysis principles and practices
- K0697: Knowledge of encryption algorithm capabilities and applications
- 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
- K0786: Knowledge of physical computer components
- K0787: Knowledge of computer peripherals
- K0788: Knowledge of adversarial tactics principles and practices
- K0789: Knowledge of adversarial tactics tools and techniques
- K0790: Knowledge of adversarial tactics policies and procedures
- K0792: Knowledge of network configurations
- K0806: Knowledge of machine virtualization tools and techniques
- K0812: Knowledge of digital communication systems and software
- K0818: Knowledge of new and emerging cybersecurity risks
- K0825: Knowledge of threat vector characteristics
- K0831: Knowledge of network attack vectors
- K0844: Knowledge of cyber attack stages
- K0845: Knowledge of cyber intrusion activity phases
- 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
- 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
- K0960: Knowledge of content management system (CMS) capabilities and applications
- K0968: Knowledge of analytic standards and frameworks Skill in assigning analytical confidence ratings
- K0969: Knowledge of cyber-attack tools and techniques
- K0983: Knowledge of computer networking principles and practices
- K0984: Knowledge of web security principles and practices
- K0986: Knowledge of target selection criticality factors
- K0987: Knowledge of target selection vulnerability factors
- K0989: Knowledge of intelligence information repositories
- K0990: Knowledge of cyber operations principles and practices
- K0994: Knowledge of denial and deception tools and techniques
- K1002: Knowledge of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and software
- K1005: Knowledge of intelligence collection capabilities and applications
- K1007: Knowledge of intelligence requirements tasking systems and software
- K1008: Knowledge of intelligence support activities
- K1009: Knowledge of threat intelligence principles and practices
- K1010: Knowledge of intelligence policies and procedures
- K1011: Knowledge of network addressing principles and practices
- K1014: Knowledge of network security principles and practices
- K1023: Knowledge of network exploitation tools and techniques
- K1025: Knowledge of decision-making policies and procedures
- K1028: Knowledge of target development principles and practices
- K1035: Knowledge of target research tools and techniques
- K1042: Knowledge of target selection policies and procedures
- K1049: Knowledge of routing protocols
- K1059: Knowledge of request for information processes
- K1063: Knowledge of operation assessment processes
- K1066: Knowledge of threat behaviors
- K1067: Knowledge of target behaviors
- K1068: Knowledge of threat systems and software
- K1069: Knowledge of virtual machine tools and technologies
- K1100: Knowledge of analytical tools and techniques
- K1101: Knowledge of analytics
- K1106: Knowledge of targeting databases
- K1107: Knowledge of targeting systems and software
- K1109: Knowledge of virtual collaborative workspace tools and techniques
- K1197: Knowledge of priority intelligence requirements
- S0111: Skill in interfacing with customers
- S0194: Skill in conducting non-attributable research
- S0385: Skill in communicating complex concepts
- S0430: Skill in collaborating with others
- S0433: Skill in creating analytics
- S0434: Skill in extrapolating from incomplete data sets
- S0435: Skill in analyzing large data sets
- S0436: Skill in creating target intelligence products
- S0438: Skill in functioning effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
- S0443: Skill in mitigating cognitive biases
- S0444: Skill in mitigating deception in reporting and analysis
- S0446: Skill in mimicking threat actors
- S0472: Skill in developing virtual machines
- S0473: Skill in maintaining virtual machines
- S0494: Skill in performing operational environment analysis
- S0503: Skill in selecting targets
- S0504: Skill in identifying vulnerabilities
- S0505: Skill in performing intrusion data analysis
- S0506: Skill in identifying customer information needs
- S0509: Skill in evaluating security products
- S0511: Skill in establishing priorities
- S0512: Skill in extracting metadata
- S0514: Skill in preparing operational environments
- S0515: Skill in identifying partner capabilities
- S0516: Skill in performing threat emulation tactics
- S0517: Skill in anticipating threats
- S0535: Skill in performing threat factor analysis
- S0537: Skill in designing wireless communications systems
- S0540: Skill in identifying network threats
- S0555: Skill in performing capabilities analysis
- S0556: Skill in performing requirements analysis
- S0579: Skill in preparing reports
- S0600: Skill in collecting relevant data from a variety of sources
- S0633: Skill in developing position qualification requirements
- S0673: Skill in translating operational requirements into security controls
- S0686: Skill in performing risk assessments
- S0693: Skill in assessing effects generated during and after cyber operations
- S0702: Skill in defining an operational environment
- S0704: Skill in performing target analysis
- S0709: Skill in developing analytics
- S0712: Skill in evaluating data source quality
- S0713: Skill in evaluating information quality
- S0718: Skill in identifying cybersecurity threats
- S0719: Skill in identifying intelligence gaps
- S0724: Skill in managing client relationships
- S0728: Skill in preparing briefings
- S0731: Skill in producing after-action reports
- S0739: Skill in analyzing intelligence products
- S0748: Skill in querying data
- S0751: Skill in conducting open-source searches
- S0756: Skill in incorporating feedback
- S0765: Skill in converting intelligence requirements into intelligence production tasks
- S0777: Skill in developing collection strategies
- S0779: Skill in determining information requirements
- S0791: Skill in presenting to an audience
- S0801: Skill in assessing partner operations capabilities
- S0847: Skill in performing all-source intelligence analysis
- S0869: Skill in performing metadata analysis
- S0876: Skill in performing nodal analysis
Source: Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) (NIST SP 800-181 Rev 1) (Version: 1.0.0)