May 2023 - SFIA update

Contents

• US English version of SFIA 8
• Role/job levelling with SFIA for the US National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)  work roles
• Business analysis BABOK and BA role profiles
• Brazilian Portuguese translation of SFIA 8
  
• The work developing SFIA 9 continues

US English version of SFIA 8

• We have growing interest and numbers of SFIA users in the United States.
• We have created US English versions of the 3 SFIA pdfs and the Excel spreadsheet. 
• These are available to registered users here 

US-based National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE)

• Our commitment to integrating cybersecurity with SFIA continues
• We have developed an approach to support employers defining cybersecurity jobs and a cybersecurity job architecture based on the NICE work roles and SFIA
• We have used the SFIA responsibility levels and SFIA skills to create a simple tabular mapping to NICE work roles
• Here is a 3 minute video explaining the approach. (No audio).

• This is a work in progress, prototype of this approach. We are looking for feedback from the SFIA and cybersecurity community to develop this further including to extending to a wider range of professional career families.
• Anyone interested in helping to develop this further should contact the SFIA Foundation.
• Supporting Excel and pdf documents are available to download here

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Background

• The NICE Program Office has submitted a report "Measuring Cybersecurity Workforce Capabilities: Defining a Proficiency Scale for the NICE Framework" to Congress
• They intend to "Establish a workplace-focused NICE Framework proficiency scale that is modeled after the SFIA Levels of Responsibility and incorporates criteria of supervision, complexity, professional skills, knowledge, and influence, to be applied to Competency Areas and Work Roles; and develop a plan to communicate the scale and its application to the NICE Framework to the community of stakeholders"
• We first published a SFIA-NICE Mapping with the release of SFIA 7 (2019) and this has been updated with the release of SFIA 8 (2021)

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Business analysis BABOK and BA role profiles

• Many thanks to the IIBA UK working group who have updated the BABOK v3 mapping to SFIA 8
• They have also created and shared generic job/role descriptions for the following...
  • Business Analysis Practice Lead
  • Senior Business Analyst
  • Business Analyst
  • Trainee/Apprentice Business Analyst
• You can find the documents here

We welcome interest in professional bodies and publishers of bodies of knowledge to do something similar. It's a great way of introducing a wider audience to the value of the work you do in building the knowledge, capabilities and reputation of your professionals.

Peter Leather

SFIA Updates Manager