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security role you're ready for.

Talent2Role Cyber reads your security experience, maps it against all 42 NICE work roles, and shows you exactly which competencies you already evidence, which ones you're missing, and the shortest credible path to the role you want.

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83%Role readiness
49Competencies matched
55Priority gaps
Systems Security Analysis83%
Incident Response78%
Defensive Cybersecurity71%
Digital Forensics44%
The problem

Cyber hiring has a standard. Cyber careers don't use it.

Two "Security Analyst" jobs at two companies can share almost nothing. Meanwhile NIST already published the taxonomy the whole industry references — 42 work roles, 2,211 competency statements — and it sits in a PDF nobody opens when deciding what to learn next.

Job titles carry no signal

"Security Engineer" might mean SOC triage, cloud hardening or appsec review. You cannot tell whether you qualify from the title, and neither can the recruiter.

What breaks today

"Get more cloud experience" isn't a plan

Which knowledge statements, in what order, costing how many weeks, moving your readiness by how much? Career advice stops exactly where the useful detail starts.

What breaks today

Keyword matching misses competence

An ATS compares strings. It cannot tell that "hardened the estate" and "applied security configuration baselines" describe the same NICE competency.

What breaks today
The platform

Seven modules. One competency graph.

Everything runs off the same NICE ontology, so an insight in one module is immediately usable in the next.

Dashboard

Readiness score against your target role, momentum over eight weeks, priority gaps, and the single next action worth taking.

Profile

Security experience, certifications, tooling and self-assessed competencies — the evidence base every score is derived from.

Process

A guided five-stage journey — capture, map, analyse, plan, prove — with each stage gated on the one before it.

Resume Gap Analyzer

The flagship. Paste your resume and get a statement-level match against all 42 work roles, with every missing TKS statement listed by ID.

Role Explorer

Browse all 42 roles across the five NICE categories, read the exact knowledge and skill statements each demands, and see which roles are adjacent to yours.

Learning Path

Your gaps grouped into NICE competency areas and ordered by readiness gain per hour — biggest impact per hour invested, first.

Job Match

Paste any security job advert. It gets mapped to its closest NICE role, scored against your profile, and the gaps that would sink the interview are flagged first.

Advisory

For security teams: NICE capability assessment, hiring advisory and training design — human expertise on top of the platform's output.

How it works

Five stages, resume to offer

The same process runs inside the platform as a guided journey, with your progress tracked at every stage.

1

Capture

Sign in and bring your evidence — resume, roles held, certifications, tooling. Detail is what the engine has to work with.

2

Map

Your evidence is reduced to competency signal and matched against 2,211 NICE TKS statements.

3

Analyse

Scored against all 42 work roles. Readiness, matched statements, and every gap listed by ID.

4

Plan

Gaps become a sequenced curriculum with effort estimates and the readiness impact of each theme.

5

Prove

Close gaps, track readiness climbing, and score real job adverts before you apply.

The framework

Why NICE, and what that actually buys you

NIST SP 800-181 Rev. 1 is the reference taxonomy for the US cyber workforce — public domain, used by employers, training providers and federal qualification schemes. It is the closest thing the industry has to an agreed definition of who does what.

What a competency statement looks like

K0106Knowledge of the nature and function of the relevant information structure (e.g., National Military Command System).
S0078Skill in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.
S0173Skill in using security event correlation tools.

Every statement has a stable ID. That is what makes gap analysis possible: your resume either evidences S0173 or it doesn't, and if it doesn't, that is a concrete thing to go and learn — not a vague instruction to "get more SIEM experience".

Who it's for

Four people, one competency graph

The same engine answers a different question depending on who is asking it.

Security practitioners

You're in the field and want the next role — senior analyst, threat hunter, cloud security.

  • Which roles am I already close to?
  • What exactly is missing?
  • How long to close it?

Career switchers

Coming from IT, networking, helpdesk or the military, and unsure where you actually land.

  • Which cyber roles fit what I've done?
  • What's the shortest bridge?
  • Which certs actually matter?

CISOs and security L&D

You have to evidence team capability and justify a training budget with something defensible.

  • Where is the team thin?
  • What should we hire vs. train?
  • Prove coverage against a standard

Training providers

Bootcamps and academic programmes that need curriculum mapped to real employer demand.

  • Map a syllabus to NICE roles
  • Show learners their gap closing
  • Evidence outcomes to employers
Pricing

Start free. Pay when it's working.

Individuals get the full analysis engine at no cost. Security teams pay for scale, evidence and advisory.

Explorer

Free

For anyone finding their next security role.

  • Full profile & guided process
  • Gap analysis against all 42 NICE roles
  • Role explorer & learning path
  • 3 job matches per month
Most popular

Professional

$19 / month

For people running a serious search or building a promotion case.

  • Everything in Explorer
  • Unlimited job matching
  • Interview rehearsal on real TKS statements
  • Evidence portfolio & exports
  • Readiness history & progress tracking

Team

Custom

For security leaders mapping and closing capability at scale.

  • Team-wide NICE capability heat maps
  • Hiring & role-design advisory
  • SSO, audit trail, data residency
  • Capability assessment & implementation

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