In my upcoming Cybersecurity career, the three categories of NICE framework that interest me the most are: Protect and Defend, Analyze, and Securely Provision. Active work on a watch floor (Protect and Defend) as a cyber analyst sounds the most appealing with plenty of action to boot. That position would create a work environment that changes daily which would keep me engaged and interested. Working as a security assessor (Analyze) is appealing as well. This would be less “action packed” as a cyber analyst but the role is still crucial to every business or corporation with an online presence. Security architecture (Securely Provision) would be the most aligned with engineering and quite possibly, the most challenging. As more and more businesses dedicate more resources to cybersecurity, the demand for these skills isn’t going away anytime soon. The least appealing categories for me were Legal/Regulatory and Collect/Operate because they both strike me as stagnant positions.