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Last updated: 15 November 2008
The Infosec Competencies are designed to meet the Government's minimum competency standards for its Infosec practitioners, particularly departmental information technology security officers (ITSOs). The matrix also shows Core Competency Profiles (CCPs) for others involved in government Infosec roles.
The Competency Clusters are generic, so that you can integrate the competencies with others from your organisation's appraisal schemes. You should add further detail or examples to individual competency descriptions, to provide an accurate and measurable description of each competency for your organisation. Only skills that are directly relevant to Infosec activities are included, but you can combine these with others from your own frameworks to create a profile for a specific post.
Whether used in organisational appraisal schemes or ITPC Certificate submissions, Target Competencies must be relevant to the role and achievable, but they must also reflect faithfully the intrinsic meaning of the relevant source Core Competency.
Candidates for the ITPC Scheme Certificate of Infosec Competency use the competencies to develop their own, measurable, Target Competencies. ITPC Scheme Examiners then use these Target Competencies when assessing dissertations.