Protect & Defend

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A NICE Workforce Framework category consisting of specialty areas responsible for the identification, analysis, and mitigation of threats to internal IT systems or networks.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Protect & Defends
possessive: Protect & Defend's
pluralpossessive: Protect & Defends'

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