National Institute of Standards and Technology Assignment

I am very new to the Cyber Security field but I am excited to see what opportunities are
available for me. For this assignment I had to take a look at the National Institute for Standards
and Technology (NICE) Workforce Framework website to try and get a better grasp of what
certain areas that I would like to focus my career on. This is also to see what areas in this field
would appeal most to me and which jobs do not appeal to what I would like to do. After looking
over the website, I saw a lot of careers that I had no idea even existed. The jobs that stood out
to me were Digital Forensics, Cyber Curriculum Development, and Mission Assessment. Digital
Forensics stood out to me because analyzing digital evidence sounds like a profession that
would be very interesting. I liked Cyber Curriculum Development as well because the job title
mentioned the evaluation of Cyber Security awareness and I feel like this career would be very
rewarding. I feel that Cyber Security awareness is very important and I love talking about it, so
this line of work seemed like something that would suit me well. Most of the jobs on the list
caught my attention, but program management and system testing and evaluation were two that
I was less interested in. I don’t mind running tests and finding issues for a system because it is
still very important but I don’t find this occupation in particular to be as exciting to me as the
others that I mentioned. To conclude, it was nice to see all the jobs that are available in this
field. Like I said earlier in the text, I am excited to see what opportunities are available for me
and I am looking forward to learning more about them.