“If employers aren’t sure what they want from graduates how can students learn what they need to know to get a job?””
Cyber is here to stay and it is evolving faster than our curriculum refreshes can keep up with. The cyber industry, however, still insists on demanding ‘skilled graduates’ without actually defining the skills those graduates need.
According to the National Cyber Security Centre’s Cyber Body of Knowledge (CyBoK), there are 21 knowledge areas, and each one constitutes a potential career path.
The CyBOK project aims to bring cyber security into line with the more established sciences by distilling knowledge from major internationally-recognised experts to form a Cyber Security Body of Knowledge that will provide much-needed foundations for this emerging topic.
In short, it is not possible to delve into all areas of “cyber” in a single college course or university degree and there is now an emphasis on further reading and external exploration in order to complement taught elements within a course.
Introductions to the true nature of cyber, providing background and non-technical explanations to provide an historical and geopolitical backdrop of cyber.
A better understanding of the dark-side that comes hand-in-hand with the amazing benefits of digitalisation will motivate staff and faculty to take more interest in broadening their cyber knowledge.
ISC2 publish their Workforce Gap every year. It is the gap between the number of cyber job adverts and the number of qualified people to fill them. Or, is it really the gap between poorly written job adverts and the actual qualifications people have? Extra-curricula cyber learning incorporating out-of-class sessions, short courses, self-paced gamified labs, CTF Leagues and focus sessions, dovetailed into your normal courses, will gestalt your cyber capability.
Red Team capabilities
1. The Cyber Kill Chain
2. Active & Passive Reconnaissance
3. Weaponise, deliver & exploit
4. Install, C2 and Actions On
Blue Team capabilities
1. The Cyber Risk Equation
2. Value of digital & information assets
3. Threats to assets including Compliance
4. Vulnerabilities exploited by Threats
The SudoCyber team will speak from experience and lean into their unique SaaS-based accelerated learning platform, designed to help develop cyber knowledge and capability in learners. The platform can be used as a teaching aid to demonstrate what some cyber attacks look like or a complimentary offering for those who are interested in exploring further to continue at their own pace. It will also help advanced students to widen their skills.
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