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Ensuring Your Cyber Workforce Is
Next Level


A pioneer in cyber competency assessment, NXLCyber uses complex real-world cyber workforce assessments to verify that individuals can accomplish the essential tasks of the most in-demand cyber work roles. NXLCyber is a veteran-owned company committed to strengthening the U.S. cyber workforce, developing and deploying its products and services only within the U.S.

Hire, Promote, Ensure Competence

Multiple-choice knowledge exams and cyber skill tests in small, simple vacuum networks cannot determine if an individual is competent. Degrees, certificates, and badges do not prove that individuals can competently perform the work roles and tasks needed to defend complex interconnected systems and networks. NXLCyber embraces the pace, scale, and complexity of the real world in its Cyber Workforce Assessments, allowing us to ensure your organization makes the right decision when hiring, promoting, and investing in its cyber workforce.

How We Do It

Pioneered by and in partnership with the nationally recognized NICE Challenge Project, NXLCyber goes beyond traditional cybersecurity skills assessments by offering real-world cyber workforce challenges within complex virtualized business environments. We test work role competency and workforce readiness through our realistic, narrative-driven Cyber Workforce Assessments and unique evaluation methodology. Let NXLCyber ensure your organization's cyber hires, promotions, and workforce investments are the right ones.

Cyber Assessment Products

All the ways to ensure your cyber workforce is next level.

New Hire Assessment

  • Assess workforce readiness and work role competency before you hire for cyber workforce positions.

Promotion Assessment

  • Ensure you are promoting employees that will be the most competent and ready to perform the promotions new tasks.

Workforce Gap Assessment

  • Find knowledge, skill, ability, and task competency gaps by assessing in your current cyber workforce.

Training Aptitude Assessment

  • Make sure you’re investing in your cyber workforce wisely by ensuring you only train those with the right aptitude.

Key Benefits

Our Cyber Workforce Assessments offer several benefits over traditional skill assessments. From the rigor of our assessments to the speed of the results, we will always ensure you are hiring, promoting, and investing in your cyber workforce wisely.

Competency First

Identify the most competent, adaptable, and foundationally skilled

No Barriers to Use

Assessments completed via web browser from anywhere in the USA

Quick Turnaround

Scalable, efficient methodology returns quick results with minimal lead time

Quick Turnaround

Scalable, efficient methodology returns quick results with minimal lead time

Actionable Output

Make confident decisions with detailed and relevant assesment output

Actionable Output

Make confident decisions with detailed and relevant assessment output

Customizable Content

Customizable virtualized scenarios, systems, and networks

Zero PII

No candidate PII and SPII required, retained, or shared

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Of the Most
In-Demand Cyber Work Roles

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Unique Turn-Key
Cyber Workforce Assessments

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Mapped & Measured
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, & Tasks

Assessment Targets

Whatever your cyber assessment need is, NXLCyber can help you find the most competent candidates.

Technical & User Support

Identify candidates capable of diagnosing and resolving user-reported system problems. Utilize Workforce Challenges to assess candidates’ ability to complete critical tasks such as performing asset management of IT resources or administering accounts, network rights, and systems access.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Technical Support Specialist Work Role

Systems Analysis & Administration

Task candidates with identifying gaps in security within a realistic virtualized work environment. Assess their ability to design group policies and implement cybersecurity countermeasures while ensuring compatibility with organizational standards and business needs.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Systems Security Analyst & System Administrator Work Roles

Network Analysis & Administration

Determine candidates’ aptitude for integrating new systems into existing architecture, diagnosing network connectivity problems, and monitoring network performance through immersive, narrative-driven, Workforce Challenges.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Network Operations Specialist Work Role

Database Analysis & Administration

Leverage Workforce Challenge metrics to select candidates capable of preserving the integrity of your organization’s data through database backups and recovery. Allow candidates to prove their ability to monitor and ensure optimal performance of your organization’s databases before they’ve joined your team.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Data Analyst & Database Administrator Work Roles

Vulnerability Assessment & Management

Rank candidates based on their analysis of cyber defense policies and configurations implemented by fictitious businesses within our virtualized environments. Our virtualized environments enable candidates to conduct authorized penetration testing on network assets while recording metrics on which they may be evaluated.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Vulnerability Assessment Analyst Work Role

Cybersecurity Defense, Analysis, & Infrastructure Support

Ensuring that cybersecurity-enabled products, and other compensating security control technologies, reduce identified risk to an acceptable level is a mission critical skill that is difficult to assess via traditional means. Workforce Challenges provide a convenient avenue for determining whether your candidate is fit for a cybersecurity position.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Cyber Defense AnalystCyber Defense Infrastructure Support Specialist Work Roles

Cybersecurity Incident Response

Challenge candidates to perform real-time cyber defense incident handling tasks to support incident response teams. Assess their ability to collect forensics, correlate and track intrusions, analyze threats, and direct system remediation.

NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NIST SP 800-181)
Cyber Defense Incident Responder Work Role

Cyber Workforce Assessments

Leverage Our Wide-ranging
and Diverse Catalog

NXLCyber offers a catalog of Cyber Workforce Assessments, which can be mixed, matched, and customized to meet the needs of a specific cybersecurity position. Our assessments place candidates in a realistic, virtualized digital work environment where they are asked to complete a series of tasks, which are tracked and assessed by automated checks. These metrics can help determine and rank candidates for the given role, helping ensure that only the most qualified and competent candidates are considered.

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