Every cyber talent pool is a haystack. We find the needles.

CyberGEN.IQ identifies the people with the aptitude to excel in cybersecurity, regardless of background, so organizations can build stronger teams faster

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Proactive Reactive Real-time Strategic

Scattered signals resolve into the four profiles of cyber work that CyberGEN.IQ measures against.

Administered: 10,000+
Cognitive tasks: 14
Results map to: NIST/NICE Framework

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The cyber talent identification problem

Conventional screening reads history, not aptitude

One population of 288 people

Holds a cyber credential
Aptitude, no credential
Not identified

Gap

Resumes, certifications, and knowledge tests describe what a person has been taught, not how they think when a situation is new, ambiguous, or moving faster than the playbook

Prior cyber knowledge is a proxy for access, not for capability
One overall score can't show where a person fits in cyber
Candidates are selected before anyone sees them do real cyber work

How CyberGEN.IQ works

Five cognitive dimensions, four profiles of cyber work

Fourteen tasks measure five cognitive dimensions, mapping to four cyber work profiles

The contrast between the dimensions points to the kind of cyber work they fit

How the assessment works

Participant profile

relative strength, percentile

Critical Thinking

78 Initiating

64 Responding

41 Real-Time

36 Exhaustive

Each kind of cyber work makes a different cognitive demand

The profile says which demand a person meets most naturally

Offensive Operations
Find the way in that nobody documented, while the window is open.
Demands
InitiatingReal-Time
Red team, penetration testing
Defensive Operations
Notice the one anomaly in a stream that runs all shift, then act on it.
Demands
RespondingReal-Time
SOC analysis, incident response
Design and Development
Build the thing that holds up against attacks nobody has tried yet.
Demands
InitiatingExhaustive
Security architecture, engineering
Analysis and Forensics
Reconstruct what happened from evidence that is incomplete on purpose.
Demands
RespondingExhaustive
Intelligence analysis, forensics

One input alongside skills, experience, and your program criteria

Organizational pathways

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Government and DefenseInform selection into high-cost training pipelines before funding is committed.Discuss a Government Use Case
Universities and Training ProgramsIdentify students for cyber pathways before they self-select out.Discuss Your Program
Workforce DevelopmentInform which training track fits each participant's strengths.Discuss Your Workforce Strategy
EmployersDevelop internal candidates and plan cyber capacity with evidence.Discuss Your Workforce Strategy

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A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether CyberGEN.IQ fits your program