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H12C Master Exploitation Analyst

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A Navy Enlisted Classification: a skill designation sailors hold in addition to their rating.

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Overview

A Master Exploitation Analyst leads basic and senior exploitation analysts, identifies access and collection gaps, and develops plans for cyberspace operations supporting Armed Forces and national defense operations. The analyst navigates during operations, maps target networks with all-source data, identifies tool gaps, pairs capabilities with targets, submits capability requirements, and recommends authorized follow-on actions to senior leadership.

Core Skills

  • Target network mapping from all-source data
  • Access and collection gap analysis
  • Cyberspace capability matching to targets
  • Cyber tool gap and requirements development

Civilian Career Paths

Career associations are editorial assessments of the cited evidence, not an official crosswalk unless the evidence explicitly says so. O*NET supplies civilian occupation information, not proof of a military match. Related experience does not confer civilian qualifications. Tasks and tools below describe civilian work, not military training.

Penetration Testers

Mapping target networks, identifying access gaps, and matching cyberspace capabilities to targets provide a foundation for planning civilian network security assessments.

How to prepare: Complete an authorized lab-based network security assessment and produce a report documenting scope, findings, and mitigation recommendations to demonstrate hands-on testing beyond exploitation planning.

What the civilian work involves
  • Conduct network and security system audits, using established criteria.
  • Design security solutions to address known device vulnerabilities.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Bash
  • Linux

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. NAVPERS 18068F Vol II (NEOCS, Jul 2026 edition): NEC H12C

    [1] NEC entry "H12C - Master Exploitation Analyst"; cached text line 6128; NAVPERS 18068F Vol II, 2026-07 edition

    Supports: Target network mapping from all-source data, Access and collection gap analysis, Cyberspace capability matching to targets, Cyber tool gap and requirements development, Penetration Testers (O*NET 15-1299.04)

  2. O*NET: Penetration Testers

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Penetration Testers (O*NET 15-1299.04)

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