Cybersecurity and Applied AI career intelligence
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Sources
Every claim DecipherU makes traces to a primary public source.
Used across every DecipherU career, salary, and certification surface.
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Median, 10th, and 90th percentile compensation by SOC code.
Occupational Outlook Handbook. 10-year employment projections.
Department of Labor occupational database. Skills, knowledge, work activities by SOC code.
NIST SP 800-181. Cybersecurity work-role definitions, KSAs, and task statements.
Anchors for the deterministic AI Risk Score.
10-year employment growth (29% projected 2024-2034).
AI security work-role functional categories.
Annual workforce gap and AI-tool adoption rates.
Tactics, techniques, and adversarial ML threat patterns.
Citations behind the DecipherU framework.
Vocational interest typology used in DecipherU's career-fit assessments.
Cybersecurity Framework function and category mappings.
Digital Identity Guidelines, used by Password Health and identity tools.
Live workforce data sources for /market.
Cybersecurity supply / demand heatmap and certification data.
Information Security Analyst wages, May 2024 data.
Global workforce gap and workforce size estimates.
Primary sources powering DecipherU's free tools.
Salary calculator base data.
CompTIA, ISC2, ISACA, GIAC, EC-Council. Cost, exam format, renewal terms — verified directly with each body.
Password Health tool reference.
Used in vulnerability and threat tools.