Cybersecurity Digital Skills Model 2020

• Main Authors: Vladimir Sukhomlin, Olga Belyakova, Anna Klimina, Marina Polyanskaya, Alexey Rusanov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: The Fund for Promotion of Internet media, IT education, human development «League Internet Media» 2020-11-01
• Series: Современные информационные технологии и IT-образование
• Subjects: cybersecurity; information security; digital skills; competencies; cybersecurity taxonomy; cybersecurity architectural model; body of knowledge (bok); curricula; outcomes
• Online Access: http://sitito.cs.msu.ru/index.php/SITITO/article/view/684

The rapid pace of the comprehensive digitalization of society leads to increasing technological complexity and scale of cyber threats, both in the private and public sectors of the economy. Therefore, the training of highly qualified cybersecurity personnel is becoming a priority task for the education system and personnel management, and there is also a need for continuous improvement of training programs for professionals in the field of cybersecurity. The article presents the results of the development of a digital skills model for the field of cybersecurity (information security), the actual description of the architecture of the model, which determines the composition of categories and domains of skills in demand for professional cybersecurity personnel, as well as the composition of skills for the main profile categories of the model. The skills model was developed in order to determine the requirements for curricula for the training of professional personnel, as well as to develop on its basis a body of knowledge on cybersecurity and a new generation curriculum - the most important methodological tools of the education system.