Publication detail

Understanding Cybersecurity Education Gaps in Europe

RICCI, S. PARKER, S. JEŘÁBEK, J. DANIDOU, Y. CHATZOPOULOU, A. BADONNEL, R. LENDAK, I. JANOUT, V.

Original Title

Understanding Cybersecurity Education Gaps in Europe

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Demand for cybersecurity professionals from industry and institutions is high, driven by an increasing digitization of society and the growing range of potential targets for cyber attacks. However, despite this pressing need a significant shortfall in the number of cybersecurity experts remains and a discrepancy has emerged between the skills introduced through education and those required in professional settings. In this article, a political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental (PESTLE) analysis was utilized to explore the factors impacting cybersecurity education in Europe. The PESTLE analysis enabled the categorization of factors affecting cybersecurty education and skills and allowed for cybersecurity professionals to assess the relevance of the factors at a national-level and European-level. Utilizing the concept of modularity from social network analysis, the interconnectivity of factors was also considered. Finally, a European-level stakeholder survey was conducted to verify the findings. As a result of the above process, a lack of societal awareness of cybersecurity was identified as a major challenge to education, along with a lack of EU-level certification. It should be noted that significant differences between factors perceived as impacting cybersecurity education were found between countries suggesting a need for local solutions to the problem.

Keywords

Cybersecurity Education;Cybersecurity Skills Gap;Political Economic Technological Legal, and Environmental (PESTLE) analysis;Social Network Analysis

Authors

RICCI, S.; PARKER, S.; JEŘÁBEK, J.; DANIDOU, Y.; CHATZOPOULOU, A.; BADONNEL, R.; LENDAK, I.; JANOUT, V.

Released

9. 1. 2024

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

1557-9638

Periodical

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

1

Pages to

12

Pages count

12

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10380620

BibTex

@article{BUT187110,
  author="Sara {Ricci} and Simon {Parker} and Jan {Jeřábek} and Yianna {Danidou} and Argyro {Chatzopoulou} and Remi {Badonnel} and Imre {Lendak} and Vladimír {Janout}",
  title="Understanding Cybersecurity Education Gaps in Europe",
  journal="IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION",
  year="2024",
  number="1",
  pages="1--12",
  doi="10.1109/TE.2023.3340868",
  issn="1557-9638",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10380620"
}