Conference PaperIs the Nice Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) Effective for a Workforce Comprising of Interdisciplinary Majors?Jacob, Johanna; Wei, Wei; Sha, Kewei; Davari, Sadegh; Yang, T. AndrewCybersecurity is a rapidly developing field in which job titles and role descriptions may vary from one organization to the others. The NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) provides a common language to categorize and describe cybersecurity work for organizations to build a strong workforce. As the predominant workforce prescribed by the NCWF is technical in nature, academic efforts targeted towards these career paths are likewise technical. Though technical security education is critical, an equal amount of knowledge outside the technical domain is pivotal to understand sophisticated challenges in cybersecurity. Articulating a concise, inclusive, meaningful, and unifying approach in cyber related education fosters a balanced motivation for students from both technical and non-technical majors (interdisciplinary) to pursue a career in cybersecurity. Towards this end, we analyzed competencies, knowledge, skills and abilities of interdisciplinary roles and other roles introduced in the NCWF; we then highlighted discrepancies observed.2018-08-0110095246Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Scientific Computing (CSC'18). Las Vegas, USA.https://doi.org/1723596National Science Foundation