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Introducing the Cybersecurity Reference Model

By Jared Coseglia
November 01, 2016

Cybersecurity is a rapidly maturing discipline and industry that has been thrust into the limelight of social consciousness and vernacular with globally publicized events such as the Sony hacks, breaches at JPMC, Democratic National Convention email leaks, and not to be overlooked, the critically acclaimed world of Mr. Robot, which chronicles the lives and events of a post-apocalyptic cyber-hacked society. Cybersecurity has penetrated our everyday existence, entertainment, and individual concern, but little has been written to help the legal community understand the roles and opportunities within this burgeoning corner of the job market.

Not since the explosion of e-discovery at the turn of the millennium has a new wave of fear, knowledge, technology, compliance requirement, budgetary spend, talent demand and job opportunity hit the legal community as it has in recent years with cybersecurity. The effect that cybersecurity will have on the legal job market will have stark similarities to the boom of e-discovery in terms of opportunity volume, but there will also be radical differences on how these two disciplines have and will continue to change the landscape of the legal industry.

The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model), created and fostered by George Socha and Tom Gelbmann, has served as a phenomenal lexicon and cost-based approach to viewing and discussing the e-discovery lifecycle. In contrast, the TRU Cybersecurity Reference Model™ (CSRM) is a deliberate skills-based guide to the myriad of technical functions and job responsibilities that exist throughout the cyber continuum. The CSRM (pictured below) gives clarity to what skills are required through the information security lifecycle and will be a reference to compartmentalize what stages of the model are in high growth and demand.

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