French NATIONAL DIGITAL SECURITY STRATEGY — objective 3
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Integrating cybersecurity awareness into all
higher and continuing education programmes.
The Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, with the assistance of the University
Presidents’ Conference, the Grandes Ecoles Conference
and the competent administrations, will encourage the
establishment of cybersecurity awareness corresponding to the educational field in all initial higher education programmes as of the start of the 2016 academic
year.
The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment,
supported by the competent cybersecurity State administrations, will initiate the consultations required for
the organisations that provide continuing education to
integrate cybersecurity issues adapted to the training
in the curriculum as of 2016.
Finally, the State Secretariat in charge of Digital
Technology, along with the ministries concerned and
the support of ANSSI, will coordinate the initiation of
the awareness programme for the professional categories in which an inculcation of cybersecurity issues is
particularly necessary in relation to their societal responsibilities. These categories will be specified by the
Strategic Committee for Digital Trust.
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Integrating cybersecurity training into all
higher education that includes some information
technology.
The «CyberÉdu» initiative launched in 2013 confirmed that teachers involved in the higher education curricula for information technology professions are interested in the subjects related to information systems
security. This initiative should be reinforced.
The Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research, with the assistance of the University
Presidents’ Conference, the Grandes Ecoles Conference,
the administrations and competent professional organisations, will ensure that information systems security
training adapted to the field and which covers issues
related to digital technology is provided in all initial higher education programmes as of the start of the 2016
academic year. The priority should be to integrate these
security elements in the existing courses and in a pertinent manner in the broader context of each field that
is taught. It would be useful to base these steps on the
educational contents being developed, in close collaboration with the teaching community, in the framework
of the CyberEdu project.
The Ministry of Decentralisation and Public Service
will ensure that training programmes for public service
functions include elements of cybersecurity training. In
collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior, it will
ensure that the recruitment examination for the civil
servants corps of information and communication systems engineers regulated by Decree n° 2015-576 of 27
May 2015, as well as the training that will be provided
for the members of the corps will have a cybersecurity
section.
In light of a growing demand from our partners,
whenever possible, a part of the training and education offer should be adapted to an international public,
notably by providing programmes in the English language.
> Recording and anticipating the initial and conti-
nuing education needs.
Under the aegis of the Expert Panel for Digital
Trust, the short, medium and long-term initial training
needs will be established in collaboration with all the
stakeholders concerned in the administration and the
private sector.
The professional trade unions will be called on to
develop and implement continuing education programmes adapted to the needs of employees and businesses.
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