Notice how broad and vague CyberVigilant’s initial job
description is. The broadness of the job description might be
one reason that CyberVigilant has had some difficulty in
sourcing the highly skilled, mid-level cybersecurity
professionals that meet their needs. Upon reviewing the job
description, CyberVigilant and EduTech work together to better
describe and define exactly what CyberVigilant stakeholders want
in the mid-level cybersecurity analyst. EduTech is also able to
refine existing curriculum, or design new curriculum, to align
learning and program outcomes to the skills and competencies
needed for a mid-level cybersecurity analyst.
The project leader facilitates discussions between the training
partner and employer partner by asking stakeholders to first
review credentials and standardized competencies for
cybersecurity analysts on Credential Engine using the Credential
Finder tool. After stakeholders spend time reviewing industry
standards, the project leader, employer partner and training
partner meet to discuss each line-item in the starting job
description. As the project leader challenges stakeholders to
explain and get specific- using many of the standardized
credentials they agreed upon as vital to the role with
CyberVigilant, they identify the following categories of
competencies: