TY - JOUR
AU - Keith S. Jones
AU - Akbar Siami Namin
AU - Miriam E. Armstrong
AB - To identify the KSAs needed for performing cybersecurity jobs, we administered survey interviews to 44 cyber professionals at the premier hacker conferences Black Hat 2016 and DEF CON 24. Questions concerned 32 KSAs related to cyber defense.
BT - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DA - 2018-08-09
DO - 10.1145/3152893
N1 - All 32 KSAs from the NICE framework that were included in the interview were rated as being of above neutral importance (above 3.5 on a 6-point scale).The results from the t-tests and from the open-ended questions indicate that KSAs related to networks, vulnerabilities, programming, and communication are the most important for cybersecurity students to know upon graduation. We found that most KSAs were learned primarily on the job or through self-study
N2 - To identify the KSAs needed for performing cybersecurity jobs, we administered survey interviews to 44 cyber professionals at the premier hacker conferences Black Hat 2016 and DEF CON 24. Questions concerned 32 KSAs related to cyber defense.
PY - 2018
T2 - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
TI - The Core Cyber-Defense Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities That Cybersecurity Students Should Learn in School: Results from Interviews with Cybersecurity Professionals
UR - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3152893
SN - 1946-6226
ER -