Cyber Incident Response
Deep technical IC
Career Explorer · Cybersecurity, Privacy & Trust · Incident Response
Entry: Incident ResponderIC ceiling: IC8Both
Individual contributor route
Technical or professional depth, without managing people.
- Incident Responder InternIC0Optional developmental level
- Associate Incident ResponderIC1
- Incident ResponderIC2
- Senior Incident ResponderIC3
- Staff Incident ResponderIC4
- Principal Incident ResponderIC5
- Senior Principal Incident ResponderIC6
- Distinguished Incident ResponderIC7
- Fellow, Cyber Incident ResponseIC8
Management route
Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.
This family has no management ladder.
Source: NICE; SFIA