Marine Corps MOS · IT & Cyber

1720 Defensive Cyberspace Warfare Officer

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Overview

A Defensive Cyberspace Warfare Officer coordinates defensive cyberspace missions and serves as a technical director and principal advisor to headquarters and staffs. This officer integrates defensive capabilities into planning, identifies friendly and enemy cyber vulnerabilities, and helps develop courses of action at tactical and operational levels.

Minimum clearance: TS/SCI

Core Skills

Cyber vulnerability analysis for operational planning
Defensive cyber mission coordination across commands
Cyber defense integration into contingency plans
Technical evaluation of cyber response options

Civilian Career Paths

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Information Security Analysts

Experience identifying cyber vulnerabilities, employing defensive platforms, and integrating cyber defenses into operational plans transfers directly to security risk assessment and protection planning.

How to prepare: Build a lab-based security assessment portfolio that documents vulnerabilities, tests protective measures, and recommends prioritized fixes.

What the civilian work involves

Develop plans to safeguard computer files against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure and to meet emergency data processing needs.
Perform risk assessments and execute tests of data processing system to ensure functioning of data processing activities and security measures.

Civilian tools and software (examples)

Linux
Microsoft PowerShell

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)

NAVMC 1200.1L (FY26, in force): MOS 1720
[1] MOS 1720 section "a. Summary"; cached text line 6575; NAVMC 1200.1L signed 2025-03-07, in force until 2026-10-01
Supports: Cyber vulnerability analysis for operational planning, Defensive cyber mission coordination across commands, Cyber defense integration into contingency plans, Technical evaluation of cyber response options, Information Security Analysts (O*NET 15-1212.00)
O*NET: Information Security Analysts
[2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data
Supports: Information Security Analysts (O*NET 15-1212.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 1720

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