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NICE Success Story: Cyberbit Skill Development and Readiness Platform
By Cyberbit
Use: Talent Management; Hands-on skill development and competency assessment
ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE
Just like excelling in a sport, elite cyber operators must face off against dynamic opponents and unforeseen scenarios to be field-ready.
Cyberbit’s Skill Development and Readiness Platform equips individuals and organizations with the skills and expertise needed to combat today’s complex and evolving threat landscape. Cyberbit’s platform replicates real-world cyberattacks, networks, and security tools, enabling learners to develop the hands-on skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities that are essential for success.
Cyberbit aligns its offerings to the NICE Framework to ensure that learners acquire the necessary competencies to excel in their careers. Serving industry, government, and educational institutions, the Cyberbit platform prepares individuals and teams for real-world scenarios with hands-on training and supports workforce assessment to help organizations build cybersecurity teams that are prepared for the challenges of the modern threat landscape.
DRIVERS
Cyberbit’s cyber range integrates the NICE Cybersecurity Framework to ensure that security operations center (SOC) team members are spending their time practicing for their specific role inside the SOC as outlined by NICE.
By helping higher education institutions align their cybersecurity curricula with NICE Work Roles and Task, Knowledge, and Skill (TKS) statements, Cyberbit also accelerates the creation of workforce-ready cyber graduates and increases their chances of success in their future cybersecurity careers.
PROCESS
Cyberbit’s extensive library of hands-on labs and cyber range exercises are mapped to NICE TKS statements, enabling IT security managers to evaluate individual capabilities and team performance and understand what upskilling is needed for team members to fulfill their roles. Similarly, the focus on NICE Work Roles provides students with targeted training, ensuring their skill development aligns with industry best practices. Educators can routinely evaluate students’ capabilities and performance, track their progress, and create learning paths to close skill gaps.
Career paths included with the range are aligned with the specific TKSs associated with each role. Each path includes a development process associated with specific theoretical labs, practical labs, and real-world attacks to ensure that cybersecurity novices are prepared to join a SOC team and contribute to the operational capacity required for their specific Work Role.
Cyberbit’s library of attack scenarios can be filtered by job role and assigned to employees trying to earn a specific role, attain skills, or bridge gaps in knowledge about adversary behavior and tactics.
BENEFITS AND IMPACT
“In today's dynamic threat landscape, hands-on experience is paramount. Cyberbit's platform provides an unparalleled opportunity to replicate real-world cyberattacks, fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills. By aligning with the NICE Framework, we ensure our teams are equipped with the exact competencies needed to excel. Cyberbit is the cornerstone for building high-performing cybersecurity teams capable of tackling the most complex threats.”
- Nat Prakongpan, Vice President of Product
The NICE Framework is part of the blueprint for Cyberbit's skill development process. By aligning its cyber range exercises with NICE's TKSs for specific SOC roles, Cyberbit ensures targeted practice for professionals and students and facilitates evaluations for managers and educators. This allows them to identify strengths, weaknesses, and upskilling needs, ensuring highly competent and prepared cybersecurity professionals that are ready to take on the most difficult cyber challenges.
- Organizational Benefits
- Identify the roles team members will take, the skills needed for each role, and the skill development that needs to take place.
- Granular, performance-based assessment for tracking individual and team progress and performance.
- Compare candidates from different backgrounds and validate competencies using NICE TKS statements.
- Out-of-the-box NICE mapping or custom definitions.
- Educational Benefits
- Deliver hands-on experience by immersing students in a hyper-realistic environment with real-world cyber-attack scenarios, commercial security tools, and enterprise grade network.
- Help students understand the roles they will take on, the skills needed for each role, and skill development that needs to take place on their career paths.
- Assess student performance and build custom learning paths to address skill gaps.
- Shared Benefits
- Develop and strengthen cybersecurity professionals’ and students’ ability to detect and prevent attacks by helping them understand their roles, scope, and responsibilities.
- Drive excellence in cybersecurity skill development and preparedness by ensuring that professionals and students practice according to the highest standards.
CONTACT INFORMATION & RESOURCES
Contact:
Sharon Rosenman
Chief Marketing Officer
sharon.rosenman [at] Cyberbit.com (sharon[dot]rosenman[at]Cyberbit[dot]com)
Websites:
https://www.cyberbit.com/