Published in June, the main objectives of the study, carried out with the support of the French National Agency for Information Systems Security (ANSSI), were to:
- draw up a qualitative and quantitative assessment of recruitment and skills requirements in the sector’s companies, according to job category;
- carry out a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the cybersecurity skills required by companies in the sector in the short and medium term;
- evaluate the existing range of initial and continuing training courses in France, particularly in higher education;
- put expected skills into perspective with current initial and continuing training provision and its projected development over 3 and 5 years;
- measure the impact on existing jobs and organizations (legislative and regulatory changes).
After noting that the range of cybersecurity training courses on offer is diversified and in line with companies’ quantitative and qualitative needs, the study identifies three priority issues:
- increase the attractiveness and visibility of the cybersecurity sector for students and young professionals;
- help high-school and university students find their way around cybersecurity courses;
- support employees’ professional mobility and skills development in cybersecurity professions.
The study provides a mapping of professions and lists more than 500 long courses offered by higher education establishments, and short courses offered by continuing education organizations. The findings are as follows:
- a shortage of candidates;
- cybersecurity careers that are still little known to the general public;
- trades that are little-known and reduced to the technical dimension;
- a fill rate for initial training courses that calls into question the attractiveness of the sector;
- various recruitment channels;
- remarkable initiatives to build on;
- the changing skills required by companies;
- a wide range of cybersecurity training courses that are not easily understood;
- external recruitment difficulties, leading to increased internal mobility;
- insufficient awareness among company managers and HR directors.
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“Cybersecurity is a dynamic and growing sector, with 24,000 jobs in the industry, or 3% of the total workforce. The shortage of cybersecurity talent is likely to intensify over the next few years. Every effort must be made to reduce this shortage and increase the attractiveness of cybersecurity. To this end, Syntec Numérique, via Cybersecurity Committeewill continue and multiply its actions in the light of the study’s recommendations. It also calls on all stakeholders to familiarize themselves with the study and to work towards implementing its recommendations, comments Jean-Paul Alibert, Chairman of Syntec Numérique’s Cybersecurity Committee.
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