Activities

1. Read the information provided below about the knowledge, skills and abilities you will need for a cybersecurity career. Check out the cybersecurity opportunities in San Diego.
2. Have a collaborative conversation around what you have read.
3. Using the Journeys map, discover the different pathways you can take to achieve a career in cybersecurity.
4. Reflect on the past two weeks of learning by engaging in a discussion using Google Slides.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs) are the attributes required to perform work roles and are generally demonstrated through relevant experience, education, or training.

Knowledge is a body of information applied directly to the performance of a function.

Skill is often defined as an observable competence to perform a learned physical act. Some skills require the ability to physically manipulate a tool or instrument like a hand or a hammer. Skills needed for cybersecurity rely less on physical use of tools and instruments and more on applying tools, frameworks, processes and controls that have an impact on the cybersecurity approach of an organization or individual.

Ability is the competence (or ability) to perform an observable behavior or a behavior that results in a product.

A Task is a specific defined piece of work that, combined with other identified Tasks, composes the work in a specific specialty area or work role.