NICE Specialty Areas 33

Categories contain groupings of cybersecurity work, which are called Specialty Areas. There were 31 specialty areas called out in National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework version 1.0 and 32 in National Cybersecurity Workforce Framework version 2.0. Each specialty area represents an area of concentrated work, or function, within cybersecurity and related work. In previous versions of the NICE Framework, tasks and KSAs were associated with each specialty area. KSAs and Tasks are now associated with the work roles.

NIST SP 800-181

Code	Name	Work Roles
OM-DTA	Data Administration	2
OM-KMG	Knowledge Management	1
OM-STS	Customer Service and Technical Support	1
OM-NET	Network Services	1
OM-ADM	Systems Administration	1
OM-ANA	Systems Analysis	1
OV-LGA	Legal Advice and Advocacy	2
OV-TEA	Training, Education, and Awareness	2
OV-MGT	Cybersecurity Management	2
SP-RSK	Risk Management	2
SP-DEV	Software Development	2
SP-ARC	Systems Architecture	2
SP-TRD	Technology R&D	1
SP-SRP	Systems Requirements Planning	1
SP-TST	Test and Evaluation	1
SP-SYS	Systems Development	2
OV-SPP	Strategic Planning and Policy	2
OV-EXL	Executive Cyber Leadership	1
OV-PMA	Program/Project Management and Acquisition	5
PR-CDA	Cybersecurity Defense Analysis	1
PR-INF	Cybersecurity Defense Infrastructure Support	1
PR-CIR	Incident Response	1
PR-VAM	Vulnerability Assessment and Management	1
AN-TWA	Threat Analysis	1
AN-EXP	Exploitation Analysis	1
AN-ASA	All-Source Analysis	2
AN-TGT	Targets	2
AN-LNG	Language Analysis	1
CO-CLO	Collection Operations	2
CO-OPL	Cyber Operational Planning	3
CO-OPS	Cyber Operations	1
IN-INV	Cyber Investigation	1
IN-FOR	Digital Forensics	2