Cybersecurity Education

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, ENISA has placed Capacity Building as a strategic objective on its new strategy. In this content ENISA is committed to support and strengthen the enhancement of cybersecurity skills and competence across at all levels, from the non-experts to the highly skilled professionals.

In particular, ENISA continues to raise citizens’ awareness of cybersecurity and potential cyber threats (e.g. phishing attacks, botnets, financial & banking frauds, data fraud), providing guidance on good practices to promote safer online behaviour (e.g. cyber-hygiene and cyber-literacy). Furthermore, aligning its actions with the EU’s Digital Education Action Plan, ENISA is promoting and analysing cybersecurity education, in order to tackle the cybersecurity professional shortfall, which represents an issue for both economic development and national security.

Main Actions

	European Cybersecurity Month Every year ENISA launches the European Cybersecurity Month (ECSM), a campaign focusing on expanding cybersecurity awareness to citizens across Europe.
	European Cyber Security Challenge Cyber talents from each Member State collaborate and compete against each other during the European Cyber Security Challenge (ECSC), organized yearly by ENISA to promote friendly relations between the attending countries.
	European Cybersecurity Skills Framework ENISA aims to develop a European Cybersecurity Skills Framework to create a common understanding of the roles, competencies, skills and knowledge in order to address the cybersecurity skills shortage.
	Cybersecurity Higher Education Database To promote cybersecurity education and address the cybersecurity skill shortage, ENISA launched and helps maintain a unique crowd-sourcing database of cybersecurity related education programmes.
	Network and Information Security Quiz Challenge your Cybersecurity knowledge by taking ENISA’s Network and Information Security (NIS) Quiz. Answer different set of questions with increasing difficulty to demonstrate your skills. Get a certificate for every difficulty level you finish.

ENISA has released four posters as part of our educational campaign (#Netiquette) for all EU citizens interested in a secure and safe digital life: