Consolidating cybersecurity in Europe: A case study on job profiles assessment

Carlos E. Budde; Anni Karinsalo; Silvia Vidor; Jarno Salonen; Fabio Massacci

doi:10.1016/j.cose.2022.103082

Consolidating cybersecurity in Europe: A case study on job profiles assessment

Carlos E. Budde^*
, Anni Karinsalo
, Silvia Vidor
, Jarno Salonen
, Fabio Massacci

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA6403 Advanced cybersecurity and cryptography

University of Trento (UNITN)
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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Abstract

To address the issue of educating and training new experts in cybersecurity, it is crucial to identify the specific educational needs of the various professions that exist in the field. We measure these needs by analysing six cybersecurity-related job profiles—each with its own specific skill requirements—that have been assessed by academic and industrial organisations from the cybersecurity community in 14 European countries. We find that it is possible to identify a series of “transversal” skills relevant to all job profiles, and thus of utmost importance in the cybersecurity curricula. However, we also observe that academic and industrial priorities differ substantially, and that skills related to the area of Human security do not rank particularly high, possibly exposing the difficulty of integrating such concepts in traditional education.

Original language	English
Article number	103082
Journal	Computers and Security
Volume	127
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.103082
Publication status	Published - Apr 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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This work was funded by the European Union grant 830929 (H2020-CyberSec4Europe), and GA n° 101067199-ProSVED. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or The European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.This work was funded by the European Union grant 830929 (H2020-CyberSec4Europe), and GA n. 101067199-ProSVED. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or The European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work was funded by the European Union grant 830929 (H2020-CyberSec4Europe), and GA n° 101067199-ProSVED. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or The European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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Keywords

Assessment framework
Cybersecurity
Education
Professional skills

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Consolidating cybersecurity in Europe: A case study on job profiles assessment

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