Cyber Security Certification Programmes

Eleni-Constantina Davri; Eleni Darra; Isidoros Monogioudis; Athanasios Grigoriadis; Christos Iliou; Notis Mengidis; Theodora Tsikrika; Stefanos Vrochidis; Adamantini Peratikou; Helen Gibson; Damir Haskovic; Dimitrios Kavallieros; Evangelos Chaskos; Peng Zhao; Stavros Shiaeles; Nick Savage; Babak Akhgar; Xavier Bellekens; Mohamed Amine Ben Farah

doi:10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527974

Cyber Security Certification Programmes

Eleni-Constantina Davri, Eleni Darra, Isidoros Monogioudis, Athanasios Grigoriadis, Christos Iliou, Notis Mengidis, Theodora Tsikrika, Stefanos Vrochidis, Adamantini Peratikou, Helen Gibson, Damir Haskovic, Dimitrios Kavallieros, Evangelos Chaskos, Peng Zhao, Stavros Shiaeles, Nick Savage, Babak Akhgar, Xavier Bellekens, Mohamed Amine Ben Farah

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Abstract

Although a large and fast-growing workforce for qualified cybersecurity professionals exists, developing a cybersecurity certification framework has to overcome many challenges. Towards this end, an extended review of the cybersecurity certifications offered currently on the market from 9 major issuing companies is conducted. Moreover, the guidelines for the definition of a cybersecurity certification framework as they are provided from the recent Cyber Security Act and framework of ENISA, NIST and ISO/IEC 17024 are covered. A vast comparison among the presented cybersecurity certifications is given, based not only on the cybersecurity domain covered but also the required level of candidate’s experience. A proposed certification program has been also analyzed based on the learning pathways and the knowledge areas described in FORESIGHT.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	428-435
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665402859
ISBN (Print)	9781665402866
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527974
Publication status	Published - 6 Sept 2021
Event	2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience - Virtual Duration: 26 Jul 2021 → 28 Jul 2021 https://www.ieee-csr.org/

Conference

Conference	2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience
Abbreviated title	IEEE CSR
Period	26/07/21 → 28/07/21
Internet address	https://www.ieee-csr.org/

Keywords

Cybersecurity
certifications
education
certification frameworks

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Cyber Security Certification Programmes
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Davri, E.-C., Darra, E., Monogioudis, I., Grigoriadis, A., Iliou, C., Mengidis, N., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Peratikou, A., Gibson, H., Haskovic, D., Kavallieros, D., Chaskos, E., Zhao, P., Shiaeles, S., Savage, N., Akhgar, B., Bellekens, X., & Farah, M. A. B. (2021). Cyber Security Certification Programmes. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) (pp. 428-435). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CSR51186.2021.9527974

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