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Cyber Assessor: Assessment Framework to Characterize Cyber Aptitudes

Authors:
Thomas Klemas

Keywords: data analytics; cybersecurity; cybersecurity assessment; risk management; NIST; FFIEC; NERC

Abstract:
Hiring, re-vectoring, and training of employees are tasks that pose an extreme challenge for Cybersecurity Officers in many organizations, and the cost of mistakes is high. As a result, some cybersecurity managers only hire personnel that they or their trusted subordinates know personally. Others are faced with insurmountable staffing deficits and must invest a nontrivial amount of subject matter experts’ time and attention to aid in finding the few strong candidates from among the mass of applicants. Similar challenges complicate cross-vectoring and training of employees. In this paper, we present a semi-automated, multi-tiered platform named Cyber Assessor, which is designed to evaluate a candidate’s general and specific knowledge, skills, reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving ability. Cyber Assessor leverages advanced data analytics to achieve full mapping of performance to specialty sub-categories and thereby enable detailed understanding of an individual’s areas of strength and limitations.

Pages: 11 to 16

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: October 9, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8599

ISBN: 978-1-61208-512-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016