The EU Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launched a platform to bundle information relevant to cybersecurity education in Europe, including in Switzerland.
With the launch of a cybersecurity platform, ENISA aims to provide an overview to cybersecurity education, i.e. a field that has constantly gained in importance but for which information has often not been easily accessible. ENISA’s Cybersecurity Higher Education Database should give students who are interested in a cybersecurity career an overview on the different educational pathways available. Currently, the database lists only 16 cybersecurity degrees across nine countries. ENISA thus invites all EU higher education institutions with cybersecurity degrees to add their degrees to the Cybersecurity Higher Education Database.
No Swiss degree is listed yet in the database, even though relevant offers exist. The two federal institutes, EPFL and ETHZ, are offering a joint master programme in Cyber Security. The first Cyber Security Specialist (CSS) programme in higher Vocational Education and Training (higher VET) was launched in November 2019 (see also Competence profile CSS with a Federal Diploma of Higher Education).
In December, ENISA published a report on “Cybersecurity Skills Development in the EU” that focused on the status of the cybersecurity education system in Europe and the inability to attract more students in studying cybersecurity and to produce graduates with “the right cybersecurity knowledge and skills”.