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Preface
In this book, I tried to cover with essential information US NIST National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) framework KSAs in certain areas related to cyber intelligence and analytics in particular. By no means is the information in this book complete or comprehensive due to the extensive information in this area.
This book can serve as an introductory source for those who are planning to adopt the NICE framework in cyber security education. The NICE framework is meant to establish a common ground between the academia and the industry on the different knowledge areas, specialties, and work roles in cyber security. However, in its current format, the framework is abstract. Different institutions can decide their own focuses from this abstract educational model. They can also estimate the course time required to complete each KSA in the framework as clearly each will take dif- ferent course times to teach by educators or to complete by students.
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