A free, open, and customizable web-based tool developed by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Linux Foundation to help organizations assess and build cybersecurity skills across various IT roles. The framework provides skill mapping for 14 job families at different experience levels and aligns with industry standards like NIST NICE, DoD 8140, and ICT e-CF.
Motivation
Today’s organizations face an urgent need to build cybersecurity capacity across their software, DevOps, operations, and GRC teams. However, most frameworks are overly complex, vendor-driven, or narrowly scoped.
This initiative addresses the need for a simplified, practical, and open cybersecurity skills framework that is:
- Role-based and job family-oriented
- Lightweight and customizable
- Mapped to real-world proficiencies and responsibilities
- Open source and vendor-neutral
Use cases include:
- Building internal security career paths
- Mapping workforce training needs
- Conducting cybersecurity skills assessments
- Bridging the gap between HR, team leads, and technical staff
Objective
To provide an open-source, extensible cybersecurity skills framework that:
- Defines clear roles and responsibilities across 14 job families
- Maps each role to foundational, intermediate, and advanced skill levels
- Aligns with common cybersecurity standards and frameworks
- Encourages adoption across enterprises, education, and governments
Get Involved / Quick Start
- Areas that need contributions:
- New job role definitions
- Skill description refinements
- Translations and localization
- UI/UX suggestions
- Contributing instructions: See
CONTRIBUTING.md - File issues or suggestions on GitHub Issues
Governance
The CHARTER.md outlines the scope and governance of our group activities.
- Lead: Glenn ten Cate ([email protected])
- Co-Lead: Christopher Robinson ([email protected])
Intellectual Property
In accordance with the OpenSSF Charter (PDF), work produced by this group is licensed as follows:
- Software source code
- Apache License, Version 2.0, available at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- Data
- Any of the Community Data License Agreements, available at https://www.cdla.io
- Specifications
- Community Specification License, Version 1.0, available at https://github.com/CommunitySpecification/1.0
- All other Documentation
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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