Designs, develops, tests, and evaluates information systems throughout the systems development life cycle.
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NICE Framework Category
CCE® Concentration Area:
Securely Provision (SP)
NICE Specialty Area:
Systems Development (SYS)
NICE Work Role ID:
SP-SYS-002
OPM Code | DCWF Code:
632
Cybersecurity Enterprise Engineering and Architecture (SP151)
Cybersecurity Enterprise Engineering and Architecture - SP (SP151-SP)
Securing Coding - Intersystems (SP250)
Systems Developer (SP103-RBT)
KSA-T
Below are the Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Tasks (KSA-T) identified as being required to perform this work role.
ID & Description
- K0001 - Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
- K0002 - Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
- K0003 - Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
- K0004 - Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
- K0005 - Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
- K0006 - Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
- K0015 - Knowledge of computer algorithms.
- K0018 - Knowledge of encryption algorithms.
- K0024 - Knowledge of database systems.
- K0027 - Knowledge of organization’s enterprise information security architecture.
- K0028 - Knowledge of organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- K0030 - Knowledge of electrical engineering as applied to computer architecture (e.g., circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware).
- K0032 - Knowledge of resiliency and redundancy.
- K0035 - Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of system components.
- K0036 - Knowledge of human-computer interaction principles.
- K0044 - Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- K0045 - Knowledge of information security systems engineering principles (NIST SP 800-160).
- K0049 - Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption).
- K0050 - Knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management.
- K0052 - Knowledge of mathematics (e.g. logarithms, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and operational analysis).
- K0055 - Knowledge of microprocessors.
- K0056 - Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
- K0060 - Knowledge of operating systems.
- K0061 - Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
- K0063 - Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing concepts.
- K0065 - Knowledge of policy-based and risk adaptive access controls.
- K0066 - Knowledge of Privacy Impact Assessments.
- K0067 - Knowledge of process engineering concepts.
- K0073 - Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques. (e.g., Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), cybersecurity best practices on cisecurity.org).
- K0081 - Knowledge of software development models (e.g., Waterfall Model, Spiral Model).
- K0082 - Knowledge of software engineering.
- K0084 - Knowledge of structured analysis principles and methods.
- K0086 - Knowledge of system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
- K0087 - Knowledge of system software and organizational design standards, policies, and authorized approaches (e.g., International Organization for Standardization [ISO] guidelines) relating to system design.
- K0090 - Knowledge of system life cycle management principles, including software security and usability.
- K0091 - Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
- K0093 - Knowledge of telecommunications concepts (e.g., Communications channel, Systems Link Budgeting, Spectral efficiency, Multiplexing).
- K0102 - Knowledge of the systems engineering process.
- K0126 - Knowledge of Supply Chain Risk Management Practices (NIST SP 800-161).
- K0139 - Knowledge of interpreted and compiled computer languages.
- K0169 - Knowledge of information technology (IT) supply chain security and supply chain risk management policies, requirements, and procedures.
- K0170 - Knowledge of critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
- K0179 - Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
- K0180 - Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
- K0200 - Knowledge of service management concepts for networks and related standards (e.g., Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
- K0203 - Knowledge of security models (e.g., Bell-LaPadula model, Biba integrity model, Clark-Wilson integrity model).
- K0207 - Knowledge of circuit analysis.
- K0212 - Knowledge of cybersecurity-enabled software products.
- K0227 - Knowledge of various types of computer architectures.
- K0260 - Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.
- K0261 - Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.
- K0262 - Knowledge of Personal Health Information (PHI) data security standards.
- K0276 - Knowledge of security management.
- K0287 - Knowledge of an organization’s information classification program and procedures for information compromise.
- K0297 - Knowledge of countermeasure design for identified security risks.
- K0308 - Knowledge of cryptology.
- K0322 - Knowledge of embedded systems.
- K0325 - Knowledge of Information Theory (e.g., source coding, channel coding, algorithm complexity theory, and data compression).
- K0332 - Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
- K0333 - Knowledge of network design processes, to include understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and trade-offs.
- K0336 - Knowledge of access authentication methods.
ID & Description
- S0015 - Skill in conducting test events.
- S0021 - Skill in designing a data analysis structure (i.e., the types of data a test must generate and how to analyze that data).
- S0026 - Skill in determining an appropriate level of test rigor for a given system.
- S0030 - Skill in developing operations-based testing scenarios.
- S0048 - Skill in systems integration testing.
- S0060 - Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).
- S0061 - Skill in writing test plans.
- S0082 - Skill in evaluating test plans for applicability and completeness.
- S0104 - Skill in conducting Test Readiness Reviews.
- S0107 - Skill in designing and documenting overall program Test & Evaluation strategies.
- S0110 - Skill in identifying Test & Evaluation infrastructure (people, ranges, tools, instrumentation) requirements.
- S0112 - Skill in managing test assets, test resources, and test personnel to ensure effective completion of test events.
- S0115 - Skill in preparing Test & Evaluation reports.
- S0117 - Skill in providing Test & Evaluation resource estimate.
- S0367 - Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
ID & Description
- A0123 - Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- A0170 - Ability to identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
ID & Description
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- T0012 - Analyze design constraints, analyze trade-offs and detailed system and security design, and consider life cycle support.
- T0021 - Build, test, and modify product prototypes using working models or theoretical models.
- T0053 - Design and develop cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products.
- T0056 - Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs, and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
- T0061 - Develop and direct system testing and validation procedures and documentation.
- T0067 - Develop architectures or system components consistent with technical specifications.
- T0070 - Develop Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans for systems under development and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment.
- T0107 - Identify and direct the remediation of technical problems encountered during testing and implementation of new systems (e.g., identify and find work-arounds for communication protocols that are not interoperable).
- T0109 - Identify and prioritize essential system functions or sub-systems required to support essential capabilities or business functions for restoration or recovery after a system failure or during a system recovery event based on overall system requirements for continuity and availability.
- T0119 - Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- T0181 - Perform risk analysis (e.g., threat, vulnerability, and probability of occurrence) whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
- T0201 - Provide guidelines for implementing developed systems to customers or installation teams.
- T0205 - Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
- T0228 - Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
- T0242 - Utilize models and simulations to analyze or predict system performance under different operating conditions.
- T0304 - Implement and integrate system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., IBM Rational Unified Process) into development environment.
- T0326 - Employ configuration management processes.
- T0350 - Conduct a market analysis to identify, assess, and recommend commercial, Government off-the-shelf, and open source products for use within a system and ensure recommended products are in compliance with organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- T0358 - Design and develop system administration and management functionality for privileged access users.
- T0359 - Design, implement, test, and evaluate secure interfaces between information systems, physical systems, and/or embedded technologies.
- T0378 - Incorporates risk-driven systems maintenance updates process to address system deficiencies (periodically and out of cycle).
- T0406 - Ensure that design and development activities are properly documented (providing a functional description of implementation) and updated as necessary.
- T0447 - Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address requirements.
- T0449 - Design to security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or applications.
- T0464 - Develop detailed design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
- T0466 - Develop mitigation strategies to address cost, schedule, performance, and security risks.
- T0480 - Identify components or elements, allocate comprehensive functional components to include security functions, and describe the relationships between the elements.
- T0488 - Implement designs for new or existing system(s).
- T0518 - Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in architecture.
- T0528 - Provide input to implementation plans, standard operating procedures, maintenance documentation, and maintenance training materials.
- T0538 - Provide support to test and evaluation activities.
- T0541 - Trace system requirements to design components and perform gap analysis.
- T0544 - Verify stability, interoperability, portability, and/or scalability of system architecture.
- T0558 - Analyze user needs and requirements to plan and conduct system development.
- T0559 - Develop designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations.
- T0560 - Collaborate on cybersecurity designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations, high integrity and availability requirements, multilevel security/processing of multiple classification levels, and processing Sensitive Compartmented Information).
- Knowledge
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ID & Description
- K0001 - Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
- K0002 - Knowledge of risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
- K0003 - Knowledge of laws, regulations, policies, and ethics as they relate to cybersecurity and privacy.
- K0004 - Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles.
- K0005 - Knowledge of cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
- K0006 - Knowledge of specific operational impacts of cybersecurity lapses.
- K0015 - Knowledge of computer algorithms.
- K0018 - Knowledge of encryption algorithms.
- K0024 - Knowledge of database systems.
- K0027 - Knowledge of organization’s enterprise information security architecture.
- K0028 - Knowledge of organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- K0030 - Knowledge of electrical engineering as applied to computer architecture (e.g., circuit boards, processors, chips, and computer hardware).
- K0032 - Knowledge of resiliency and redundancy.
- K0035 - Knowledge of installation, integration, and optimization of system components.
- K0036 - Knowledge of human-computer interaction principles.
- K0044 - Knowledge of cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- K0045 - Knowledge of information security systems engineering principles (NIST SP 800-160).
- K0049 - Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption).
- K0050 - Knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management.
- K0052 - Knowledge of mathematics (e.g. logarithms, trigonometry, linear algebra, calculus, statistics, and operational analysis).
- K0055 - Knowledge of microprocessors.
- K0056 - Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure, Oauth, OpenID, SAML, SPML).
- K0060 - Knowledge of operating systems.
- K0061 - Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
- K0063 - Knowledge of parallel and distributed computing concepts.
- K0065 - Knowledge of policy-based and risk adaptive access controls.
- K0066 - Knowledge of Privacy Impact Assessments.
- K0067 - Knowledge of process engineering concepts.
- K0073 - Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques. (e.g., Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs), cybersecurity best practices on cisecurity.org).
- K0081 - Knowledge of software development models (e.g., Waterfall Model, Spiral Model).
- K0082 - Knowledge of software engineering.
- K0084 - Knowledge of structured analysis principles and methods.
- K0086 - Knowledge of system design tools, methods, and techniques, including automated systems analysis and design tools.
- K0087 - Knowledge of system software and organizational design standards, policies, and authorized approaches (e.g., International Organization for Standardization [ISO] guidelines) relating to system design.
- K0090 - Knowledge of system life cycle management principles, including software security and usability.
- K0091 - Knowledge of systems testing and evaluation methods.
- K0093 - Knowledge of telecommunications concepts (e.g., Communications channel, Systems Link Budgeting, Spectral efficiency, Multiplexing).
- K0102 - Knowledge of the systems engineering process.
- K0126 - Knowledge of Supply Chain Risk Management Practices (NIST SP 800-161).
- K0139 - Knowledge of interpreted and compiled computer languages.
- K0169 - Knowledge of information technology (IT) supply chain security and supply chain risk management policies, requirements, and procedures.
- K0170 - Knowledge of critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
- K0179 - Knowledge of network security architecture concepts including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., application of defense-in-depth).
- K0180 - Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
- K0200 - Knowledge of service management concepts for networks and related standards (e.g., Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
- K0203 - Knowledge of security models (e.g., Bell-LaPadula model, Biba integrity model, Clark-Wilson integrity model).
- K0207 - Knowledge of circuit analysis.
- K0212 - Knowledge of cybersecurity-enabled software products.
- K0227 - Knowledge of various types of computer architectures.
- K0260 - Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.
- K0261 - Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.
- K0262 - Knowledge of Personal Health Information (PHI) data security standards.
- K0276 - Knowledge of security management.
- K0287 - Knowledge of an organization’s information classification program and procedures for information compromise.
- K0297 - Knowledge of countermeasure design for identified security risks.
- K0308 - Knowledge of cryptology.
- K0322 - Knowledge of embedded systems.
- K0325 - Knowledge of Information Theory (e.g., source coding, channel coding, algorithm complexity theory, and data compression).
- K0332 - Knowledge of network protocols such as TCP/IP, Dynamic Host Configuration, Domain Name System (DNS), and directory services.
- K0333 - Knowledge of network design processes, to include understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and trade-offs.
- K0336 - Knowledge of access authentication methods.
- Skills
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ID & Description
- S0015 - Skill in conducting test events.
- S0021 - Skill in designing a data analysis structure (i.e., the types of data a test must generate and how to analyze that data).
- S0026 - Skill in determining an appropriate level of test rigor for a given system.
- S0030 - Skill in developing operations-based testing scenarios.
- S0048 - Skill in systems integration testing.
- S0060 - Skill in writing code in a currently supported programming language (e.g., Java, C++).
- S0061 - Skill in writing test plans.
- S0082 - Skill in evaluating test plans for applicability and completeness.
- S0104 - Skill in conducting Test Readiness Reviews.
- S0107 - Skill in designing and documenting overall program Test & Evaluation strategies.
- S0110 - Skill in identifying Test & Evaluation infrastructure (people, ranges, tools, instrumentation) requirements.
- S0112 - Skill in managing test assets, test resources, and test personnel to ensure effective completion of test events.
- S0115 - Skill in preparing Test & Evaluation reports.
- S0117 - Skill in providing Test & Evaluation resource estimate.
- S0367 - Skill to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- Abilities
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ID & Description
- A0123 - Ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements (relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, non-repudiation).
- A0170 - Ability to identify critical infrastructure systems with information communication technology that were designed without system security considerations.
- Tasks
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ID & Description
-
- T0012 - Analyze design constraints, analyze trade-offs and detailed system and security design, and consider life cycle support.
- T0021 - Build, test, and modify product prototypes using working models or theoretical models.
- T0053 - Design and develop cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products.
- T0056 - Design or integrate appropriate data backup capabilities into overall system designs, and ensure that appropriate technical and procedural processes exist for secure system backups and protected storage of backup data.
- T0061 - Develop and direct system testing and validation procedures and documentation.
- T0067 - Develop architectures or system components consistent with technical specifications.
- T0070 - Develop Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations plans for systems under development and ensure testing prior to systems entering a production environment.
- T0107 - Identify and direct the remediation of technical problems encountered during testing and implementation of new systems (e.g., identify and find work-arounds for communication protocols that are not interoperable).
- T0109 - Identify and prioritize essential system functions or sub-systems required to support essential capabilities or business functions for restoration or recovery after a system failure or during a system recovery event based on overall system requirements for continuity and availability.
- T0119 - Identify, assess, and recommend cybersecurity or cybersecurity-enabled products for use within a system and ensure that recommended products are in compliance with organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- T0181 - Perform risk analysis (e.g., threat, vulnerability, and probability of occurrence) whenever an application or system undergoes a major change.
- T0201 - Provide guidelines for implementing developed systems to customers or installation teams.
- T0205 - Provide input to the Risk Management Framework process activities and related documentation (e.g., system life-cycle support plans, concept of operations, operational procedures, and maintenance training materials).
- T0228 - Store, retrieve, and manipulate data for analysis of system capabilities and requirements.
- T0242 - Utilize models and simulations to analyze or predict system performance under different operating conditions.
- T0304 - Implement and integrate system development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies (e.g., IBM Rational Unified Process) into development environment.
- T0326 - Employ configuration management processes.
- T0350 - Conduct a market analysis to identify, assess, and recommend commercial, Government off-the-shelf, and open source products for use within a system and ensure recommended products are in compliance with organization’s evaluation and validation requirements.
- T0358 - Design and develop system administration and management functionality for privileged access users.
- T0359 - Design, implement, test, and evaluate secure interfaces between information systems, physical systems, and/or embedded technologies.
- T0378 - Incorporates risk-driven systems maintenance updates process to address system deficiencies (periodically and out of cycle).
- T0406 - Ensure that design and development activities are properly documented (providing a functional description of implementation) and updated as necessary.
- T0447 - Design hardware, operating systems, and software applications to adequately address requirements.
- T0449 - Design to security requirements to ensure requirements are met for all systems and/or applications.
- T0464 - Develop detailed design documentation for component and interface specifications to support system design and development.
- T0466 - Develop mitigation strategies to address cost, schedule, performance, and security risks.
- T0480 - Identify components or elements, allocate comprehensive functional components to include security functions, and describe the relationships between the elements.
- T0488 - Implement designs for new or existing system(s).
- T0518 - Perform security reviews and identify security gaps in architecture.
- T0528 - Provide input to implementation plans, standard operating procedures, maintenance documentation, and maintenance training materials.
- T0538 - Provide support to test and evaluation activities.
- T0541 - Trace system requirements to design components and perform gap analysis.
- T0544 - Verify stability, interoperability, portability, and/or scalability of system architecture.
- T0558 - Analyze user needs and requirements to plan and conduct system development.
- T0559 - Develop designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations.
- T0560 - Collaborate on cybersecurity designs to meet specific operational needs and environmental factors (e.g., access controls, automated applications, networked operations, high integrity and availability requirements, multilevel security/processing of multiple classification levels, and processing Sensitive Compartmented Information).
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