Publication detail

PESTLE Analysis of Cybersecurity Education

RICCI, S. JANOUT, V. PARKER, S. JEŘÁBEK, J. HAJNÝ, J. CHATZOPOULOU, A. BADONNEL, R.

Original Title

PESTLE Analysis of Cybersecurity Education

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Cybersecurity is a vital part of digital economies and digital governing but the discipline is suffering from a pronounced skills shortage. Nevertheless, the reasons for the inability of academia to produce enough graduates with the skills that reflect the needs of the cybersecurity industry are not well understood. In this article, we have analysed the skills shortages, gaps, and mismatches affecting cybersecurity education. We performed a Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, and Environmental (PESTLE) analysis, that allowed us to have an overview of the cybersecurity education environment from multiple perspectives. The results of this analysis highlight 31 different factors affecting cybersecurity education on a European level. These factors were further analysed from the specific perspectives of 11 European countries. In this further analysis, particular attention was given to the linkages between the identified factors. This helped to reveal which factors are connected and to describe how they are mutually dependent. A statistical approach was used to depict the results in a more general and comprehensive way and facilitated the development of our conclusions. Our analysis identifies a lack of European coordination and cooperation towards a common cybersecurity framework as one of the main factors affecting cybersecurity education.

Keywords

Cybersecurity Education, PESTLE analysis, cybersecurity skills gap.

Authors

RICCI, S.; JANOUT, V.; PARKER, S.; JEŘÁBEK, J.; HAJNÝ, J.; CHATZOPOULOU, A.; BADONNEL, R.

Released

17. 8. 2021

ISBN

978-1-4503-9051-4

Book

International Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity (ETACS 2021) at the 16th International Conference on Availability (ARES 2021).

Pages from

1

Pages to

11

Pages count

11

URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465481.3469184

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT172005,
  author="Sara {Ricci} and Vladimír {Janout} and Simon {Parker} and Jan {Jeřábek} and Jan {Hajný} and Argyro {Chatzopoulou} and Remi {Badonnel}",
  title="PESTLE Analysis of Cybersecurity Education",
  booktitle="International Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity (ETACS 2021) at the 16th International Conference on Availability (ARES 2021).",
  year="2021",
  pages="1--11",
  doi="10.1145/3465481.3469184",
  isbn="978-1-4503-9051-4",
  url="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3465481.3469184"
}