Sources

Sources and citations.

Every claim DecipherU makes traces to a primary public source.

Foundation datasets

Used across every DecipherU career, salary, and certification surface.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: OEWS
Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. Median, 10th, and 90th percentile compensation by SOC code.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: OOH
Occupational Outlook Handbook. 10-year employment projections.
O*NET OnLine
Department of Labor occupational database. Skills, knowledge, work activities by SOC code.
NICE Workforce Framework
NIST SP 800-181. Cybersecurity work-role definitions, KSAs, and task statements.

AI Risk Score

Anchors for the deterministic AI Risk Score.

BLS Information Security Analyst projections
10-year employment growth (29% projected 2024-2034).
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
AI security work-role functional categories.
ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study
Annual workforce gap and AI-tool adoption rates.
MITRE ATT&CK + ATLAS
Tactics, techniques, and adversarial ML threat patterns.

Methodology

Citations behind the DecipherU framework.

Holland Codes (RIASEC)
Vocational interest typology used in DecipherU's career-fit assessments.
NIST CSF 2.0
Cybersecurity Framework function and category mappings.
NIST SP 800-63B
Digital Identity Guidelines, used by Password Health and identity tools.

Job market dashboard

Live workforce data sources for /market.

CyberSeek
Cybersecurity supply / demand heatmap and certification data.
BLS OES May 2024: SOC 15-1212
Information Security Analyst wages, May 2024 data.
ISC2 2024 Cybersecurity Workforce Study
Global workforce gap and workforce size estimates.

Tools

Primary sources powering DecipherU's free tools.

BLS OES: multiple SOC codes
Salary calculator base data.
Official certifying bodies
CompTIA, ISC2, ISACA, GIAC, EC-Council. Cost, exam format, renewal terms verified directly with each body.
NIST SP 800-63B Rev. 4
Password Health tool reference.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Used in vulnerability and threat tools.