Stop guessing which 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 journey
Résumé to offer — one flowing process
Watch how each stage feeds the next, and what it changes for you.
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CaptureFree
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MapFree
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AnalysePro
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PlanPro
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ProvePro
Capture
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.
Careers are still assessed from a keyword list
A recruiter's desk sees a résumé, a certification logo and a job title. It cannot see what the person can actually do — or how far they are from the role they want next.
42work roles
11competency areas
2,211TKS statements
5role categories
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
One graph
One competency graph for the whole security career.
The same framework describes the SOC, the architecture team, the platform engineers, the GRC office and the investigators. That is what makes moves between them plannable.
Protection & defense
SOC and defensive analysis, incident response, threat and vulnerability analysis, digital forensics, insider threat, infrastructure support.
PD — 7 roles
Design & development
Cybersecurity and enterprise architecture, secure software and systems development, testing, OT engineering, research.
DD — 9 roles
Implementation & operation
Systems, network and database administration, technical support, data analysis, knowledge management.
IO — 7 roles
Oversight, governance & investigation
Policy, risk, programme and product management, legal advice, instruction, workforce, cybercrime and digital evidence.
OG · IN — 19 roles
The platform
A complete career application. One competency graph.
Every module runs off the same NICE ontology and your centrally stored profile — an insight in one module is immediately usable in the next, on any device.
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. A deterministic rule engine maps your evidence to framework statements — the same evidence always gives the same result. AI assists with evidence extraction and proposes near-miss matches, each of which must quote your evidence verbatim and pass the rule engine before it counts. How AI is used.
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 — and an counsellor-written summary of what matters most.
Profile Compare Pro
Paste any other profile — a role model, a colleague, the person who got the job — and see the exact statements between you, an AI gap summary and a phased plan to close it.
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.
Badges & Credentials Free credential
Earn a registered, signed Certificate of Mapped Skills and — after the free knowledge check — a Knowledge-Verified credential; every one resolves to a registry record at /v/<id> and adds to LinkedIn in one click. Alignment tiers unlock with the report.
Decision Studio Pro
Fourteen models from The Decision Book — SWOT, Johari Window, Belbin, Hard Choice, Stop Rule and more — drawn as charts from your own framework data, for interview prep and choosing between offers.
Role-Fit Report Pro
A 12-section career readiness report — analytics, SWOT, cert ROI, 13-week timetable, interview prep — printable, with a registered verify link.
Scenario Answers Pro
Real security scenarios mapped to the knowledge, skills and abilities they demonstrate — with exact guidance on using each one in interview answers.
Soft Skills Pro
Fourteen career-deciding soft skills — what each covers, why it matters in security, and concrete ways to improve.
Job Keywords Pro
Titles, terms and boolean search strings tuned to your target role — copy them straight into LinkedIn, Indeed, Bayt or Google.
Portal Profile Pack Pro
Every profile field for LinkedIn and the job portals — headline, about, experience, skills — generated from your evidence, ready to copy.
Resources & Google Notebook Pro
Curated videos, books and references per learning theme — plus a one-click study pack for Google Notebook (NotebookLM) with quizzes and audio overviews.
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.
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Capture
Sign in and bring your evidence — resume, roles held, certifications, tooling. Detail is what the engine has to work with.
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Map
Your evidence is reduced to competency signal and matched against 2,211 NICE TKS statements.
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Analyse
Scored against all 42 work roles. Readiness, matched statements, and every gap listed by ID.
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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.
The NICE Framework is published by NIST in the public domain. Talent2Role is aligned to it — mapped statement by statement, version v2.2.0 — and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by NIST or the U.S. Government. Attribution and versions.
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. Buy the report once. Nothing renews.
Individuals get the analysis engine, their top-role result and a registered credential at no cost. The full statement-level report is a one-time purchase. Security teams pay for scale, evidence and advisory.
Alignment badges & Certificate of Skills Alignment (registered, signed)
AI Career Counsellor — gap summaries, Profile Compare, interview and LinkedIn copy (assistive; scoring stays deterministic)
Team
Custom
For security leaders mapping and closing capability at scale.
Team-wide NICE capability heat maps and gap analysis
Knowledge checks and registered credentials for every seat
Hiring & role-design advisory · SSO, audit trail, data residency
Workforce development use only — not a candidate-selection tool
What a Talent2Role credential is — and isn't: an evidence-aligned or knowledge-verified statement registered and signed by Talent2Role, aligned to the public-domain NICE Framework. Not an examination-based certification, licence or accreditation, and not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST. Issuing policy · Method · Trust & AI
Partner with us
Built with partners. Giving back from day one.
Training providers, hiring teams, communities and framework bodies — the competency graph gets stronger with every partner on it.
Training providers & academies
Map your curriculum to NICE roles, show learners their gap closing week by week, and evidence outcomes to employers.
Employers & recruiters
Accept Talent2Role credentials as screening evidence and reach candidates whose competencies are already mapped to your roles.
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