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Action 5: Cyber security Skills and Training
The Action focuses on the creation of programmes to increase the capability of
cybersecurity professionals in Managerial, Technical and Information Assurance
areas.
This Action requires the initiation of a programme to train a cadre of citizens to
secure information flows. This Action focuses on the training of professionals, not
creating general awareness. This Cybersecurity Strategy identifies the following
major activities:
• Adopt a national Cybersecurity Skills Framework;
• Create a continuum of cybersecurity job descriptions;
• Identify commercially available cybersecurity certifications;
• Deliver or manage commercial delivery of training or certification
examinations;
• Periodically measure Cybersecurity skills and training levels;
• Invest in mainstream cybersecurity education and research;
• Build cybersecurity capacity of national companies; and
• Work with global partners such as IMPACT to coordinate cybersecurity
training;
It is important that prosecutors and judges have some understanding of areas
such as computers, software, and networks as well as of the increasing
importance of electronic evidence. Similarly, legislators should have some
understanding of those topics and of whether a country’s laws are adequate to
address cybercrime. It may also be helpful to train senior policy-makers,
government officials, about the threats to electronic networks (for example, how
the national banking system could be attacked) and about the threats posed by
electronic networks (for example, the use of the Internet to locate vulnerable
children for sexual trafficking).