Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Education

Effective cybersecurity safeguards digital trust, spurs innovation and progress in society, enhances the social responsibility and accountability of organizations, the cumulative effects of which enable economic prosperity and inclusion.

St. Uriel’s vision for cybersecurity education stands on a foundation that encompasses all three of these dimensions:

1. Jobs: By 2021, unfilled cybersecurity jobs worldwide will reach 3.5 million. Cybersecurity is a field of STEM, with an increasing number of job openings and highly competitive salaries. We’re still in the infancy of this sector. Students who enter cybersecurity positions now have significant growth potential. The cybersecurity skills gap – which only continues to grow – has many conflating or interrelating causes, but at the top of the list is cybersecurity education.
2. Ethics: With an explicit focus on understanding, preventing, responding to, and recovering from cyber attacks, cybersecurity jobs are designed to keep individuals and organizations safer online. The cybersecurity field operates with an inherent sense of ethical purpose, and professionals in the field make decisions and take actions with this purpose always in mind.
3. “Plasticity”: Because online threats are constantly evolving in response to preventive measures and new technologies, the imperative to learn from experience and circumstance is urgent in cybersecurity work. Leaders in the field tout critical thinking skills, curiosity, and inventive thinking as vital attributes for success in the field. Coupled with technical skills, St. Uriel will train the next generation of leading cybersecurity experts.

Cybersecurity is best learned in real time with hands-on practice

One of the biggest drawbacks is that classroom learning is non-interactive. While passive classroom learning has the advantages of lecture notes, concrete conceptual education, and organized learning, it does not challenge the learner as much as active learning. Furthermore, quizzes and exams that measure success in university are not meant to teach, they are meant to test and can’t be equated to hands-on practice.

Active learning, on the other hand, increases critical thinking skills, initiative, and better fits the needs of fluctuating learning styles. Active learning, most importantly, puts knowledge to practice. Labs and simulations are engaging and more effective for internalizing and building confidence in applied knowledge. These are all vital hard and soft skills for being successful in a cybersecurity career.

Cybersecurity Products & Services

Top notch Products and Services to detect, mitigate and recover from Cybersecurity Threats are provided by St. Uriel Education in conjunction with the following cybersecurity leaders: