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CyberSecPro

Collaborative, Multi-modal and Agile Professional Cybersecurity Training Program for a Skilled Workforce In the European Digital Single Market and Industries

Project Overview: 

CyberSecPro aims to promote a new way of training future cybersecurity professionals in Europe based on current market needs. To this end, the project contributes to provide an agile professional program of practical cybersecurity training programs and modules to stimulate specific skills and competencies, involving multiple Higher Education Institutions (HEIs, 14 in total) and security companies (13 in total) from 16 EU countries. All of them aligned to identify current market needs and constantly update training programs, to subsequently achieve mobility, innovation and excellence.

The goal is therefore to enhance the role of HEIs to provide more practical skills capable of impacting and potentially driving a trustworthy digital transformation in critical sectors of the economy. In this sense, the piloting and testing areas within the project and its practical exercises are mainly focused on three sectors, considered today as strategic areas, such as energy, healthcare and maritime. Of these three sectors, NICS Lab is primarily responsible for the design of the curricula portfolio corresponding to the control and energy industry. 

Training modules: 

Within the CybserSecPro project, NICS Lab participates in the design, implementation and commissioning of four training models, all of them related to the field of cybersecurity in the energy sector. The four modules integrate the experience and high specialisation of several European experts in the field of cybersecurity and the energy sector, following methodological procedures and coordinated actions to allow a better integration of contents, topics and exercises. 
 
All these experts, both from academia and industry, are collaborating intensively to develop different types of materials with a high level of specialisation, and for different types of audiences: CISO, cyber incident responder, risk manager, cybersecurity architect, pentester, researcher, educator, student, cybersecurity aspirant, among others. The approach adopted for the design of these four modules follows an essentially practical approach to improve the knowledge and skills, covering various knowledge areas in line with current market demand.
 
The information about each of the four modules will be shown below as soon as they are available:
  • CSP001_C_E: “Cybersecurity Essentials and Management for Energy Sector”
    • Teaser Video: https://youtu.be/5wN4gToB6W8 
    • Trainers from the University of Malaga (Spain), Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland), TalTech (Estonia), PDMFC (Portugal), TRUSTILIO (Netherlands), and SGI (Denmark).
  • CSP003_S_E: “Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Management for Energy Sector”
  • CSP004_C_E: “Network Protection for Energy Control Systems”
  • CSP008_S_E: “Protecting Charging Stations Against Specific Threats”
Records of training modules provided by NICS Lab:
  • CSP003_S_E_2: “Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Management for Energy Sector”
    • Online mode, November 22nd 2024, 2h
  • CSP004_C_E: “Network Protection for Energy Control Systems”
    • Online mode, September 23rd 2024 – October 4th 2024, 20 hours
  • CSP008_S_E: “Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Management for Energy Sector”
    • Summer School at Madeira, Portugal, June 22nd 2024, CSP008_S_E partial contents
  • CSP001_C_E: “An overview of cybersecurity in the energy sector”
    • IPICS 2024, Summer School at Oporto, Portugal, July 9th 2024, CSP001_C_E partial contents, 2h
  • CSP003_S_E: “Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Management for Energy Sector”
    • Online mode, June 27th 2024, 2h
  • CSP001_C_E: “Cybersecurity Essentials and Management for Energy Sector”
    • Online mode, May-June 2024