The NICE workplace framework serves to categorize the plethora of jobs that fall under the branch of cybersecurity. The framework includes seven distinct categories under which many jobs fall. The seven categories listed are: analyze, collect and operate, investigate, operate and maintain, oversee and govern, protect and defend, and finally security provision. These different categories have some big differences between them, which allows for a person to narrow down what they want to do in the field of cybersecurity. There are certain areas I would prefer to others, each for different reasons.
The fields that I would prefer the most are; analyze, operate and maintain, protect and defend, and security provision. The main reasons that I like these four of the seven the most are each different, and these reasons will be explained for each. Analyze seems like a category that would be great for me, being able to determine what data is useful and what data is not sounds very interesting to me. Operate and maintain interests me because operation of the many different cybersecurity systems seems like it would be very interesting and would never get boring. Protecting and defending is very interesting to me because it is what I think of when I think of cybersecurity. Protecting systems is the cruz of cybersecurity, and doing that would always be fun. Lastly, security provision seems like a good category for me because I have an interest in software development, which is one of the things that this category includes.
The fields that I would not like to be a part of are; collect and operate, investigate, and oversee and govern. These fields all are considerably less interesting than the other four, all for different reasons. Collect and operate is just not my sort of category, I would rather be defending systems or analyzing data than focusing on collecting the data. Investing seems like it would be frustrating, looking through tons of data and code to try and figure out specifically what happened seems like it would get boring. Lastly, to oversee and govern involves a lot of management of other people, something that doesn’t interest me.
The most interesting of all of the jobs is definitely protect and defend, as that is what I rethink of when i think of cybersecurity. This is mostly because this is what I expected cybersecurity to most be like before I started taking classes, and defending systems is what I want to do the most. The least appealing is to oversee and govern because I don’t like managing other people. As I progress cybersecurity, maybe by preference will change, but that is what it is for now.