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The CYBRScore Skills Assessments
Certifications are one way to hire qualified job applicants for your SOC, but do they truly measure what your cyber defenders can do?
What hands-on skills do users have to defend your network and how do you measure them?
Comtech has created the ultimate tool to assess your cyber team’s knowledge skills, and abilities.
Product Details
A valuable tool for companies, recruiters, and professionals alike, the Comtech Skills Assessment is mapped to the NIST-NICE framework.
It leverages practical, hands-on scenarios to evaluate one’s mastery of cybersecurity.
- Analytically quantify competency in job related tasks
- Align to industry standard work role definitions
- Provide immediate feedback to individuals and managers
- Save time and money by identifying skills gaps and recommending improvement opportunities
CYBRScore Skills Assessments
PR100
Cyber Defense Analyst
The CYBRScore® Cyber Defense Analyst assessments are designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to using data collected from cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purpose of mitigating threats.
The CYBRScore® PR100 Cyber Defense Analyst is comprised of the following assessments:
- Protocol Analysis
- Intrusion Detection
- Incident Handling Methodology
- Network Defense Analysis
- Network Attack Analysis
PR400
Vulnerability Assessment Analyst
The CYBRScore® Vulnerability Assessment Analyst assessments are designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to performing assessments of systems and networks within the network environment or enclave and identifying where those systems/networks deviate from acceptable configurations, enclave policy, or local policy. Measuring effectiveness of defense-in-depth architecture against known vulnerabilities.
The CYBRScore® PR400 Vulnerability Assessment Analyst is comprised of the following assessments:
- Intelligence Gathering
- Red Team
- Blue Team
IN300
Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst
The CYBRScore® Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst assessments are designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to analyzing digital evidence and investigating computer security incidents to derive useful information in support of system/network vulnerability mitigation.
The CYBRScore® IN300 Cyber Defense Forensics Analyst is comprised of the following assessments:
- Network Collection and Handling
- File Collection and Analysis
- Malware Analysis
PR300
Cyber Defense Incident Responder
The CYBRScore® Cyber Defense Incident Responder assessments are designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to investigating, analyzing, and responding to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave.
The CYBRScore® PR300 Cyber Defense Incident Responder is comprised of the following assessments:
- File Collection and Analysis
- Reporting and Remediation
SP300
Secure Software Developer
The CYBRScore® Secure Software Developer assessments are designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to developing, creating, maintaining, and writing/coding new (or modifying existing) computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs.
The CYBRScore® Secure Software Developer assessments are available for the following programming languages: C#
, C++
, Java
, Python
, and PHP
.
OM300
Technical Support Specialist
The CYBRScore® Technical Support Specialist assessment is designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to providing technical support to customers who need assistance utilizing client-level hardware and software in accordance with established or approved organizational process components (i.e., Primary Incident Management Plan, when applicable).
OM400
Network Operations Specialist
The CYBRScore® Network Operations Specialist assessment is designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to planning, implementing, and operating network services/systems, to include hardware and virtual environments.
OM500
System Administrator
The CYBRScore® System Administrator assessment is designed to assess an individual’s knowledge, skills and abilities related to setting up and maintaining a system or specific components of a system (e.g. for example, installing, configuring, and updating hardware and software; establishing and managing user accounts; overseeing or conducting backup and recovery tasks; implementing operational and technical security controls; and adhering to organizational security policies and procedures).
How it Works
CYBRScore Skills Assessments use our patented PerformanScore technology and consists of three main parts:
- Virtual Network Environment: Challenge-based tasks are presented to the candidate in a live virtual network environment.
- PerformanScore Server: Monitors student actions in real-time and determines when challenge objectives have been satisfied.
- Analytics and Reporting Tool: Detail reports provide fine-grain results on candidate achievement. Analytics can also be communicated out to external systems using a WebAPI interface.