Joseph Flores
01/17/2024
Review the NICE Workforce Framework. Are there certain areas that you would want to focus your career on? Explain which areas would appeal the most to you and which would appeal the least.
From my understanding of NICE Workforce Framework, it is a publication that defines, explains, and categorizes the different branches of cybersecurity in more layman terms so that workers, employers, and educators can understand what they need to know to be able to complete that work effectively and accurately. As I was researching what categories of the NICE Workforce Framework, I would want to work in what piqued my interest was the Investigate category. I’ve always been attached to civil work and helping the public, so I’ve always wanted to work for one of the Federal agency’s to be able to put my technical skills to use. I have a strong call to protect the innocent especially young children so I would want a career in cybercrime ideally for the FBI, so I can help track and capture online child predators and consumers of Child Pornography. Child Pornography is on the rise internationally and I feel that the world needs more people with technical skills to be able to combat this issue. The category I would want to work the least in would be Operate and Maintain. Now don’t get me wrong there are interesting careers that fall under that category for example Network Administrator, but I wouldn’t enjoy those careers simply because it doesn’t have a moral and mission critical implications to motivate me to do that field of work whereas in cybercrime it is something tangible such as capturing a specific individual that has distributed terabytes of illegal material. I guess in other words, I just wouldn’t want to feel like IT help desk. I wouldn’t want to deal with rebooting a website because it crashed or must handle employee’s problems because they didn’t know how to power on and off the computer. In other words, I want to work in a branch where I feel like I have a purpose to help and protect others.