The job market for cybersecurity professionals is facing a global issue of not having enough skilled people to meet the demand. The main reason for the growing need is the rise in cyber attacks. These attacks, driven by criminals aiming to cause harm or make money, pose serious threats such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and ransomware, putting people's safety at risk and compromising valuable information.

Because of this, we need to tackle a few challenges to increase end-user awareness and education about cybersecurity. We should look into new ways of training and using technology to teach cybersecurity professionals. This will help them meet the needs of the job market and bridge the gap between what they learn and what businesses need. For example, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) helps establish a common understanding of the skills and knowledge needed for cybersecurity roles and supports the creation of training programs.

As with the last edition of this workshop, the goal is to help regular people make smart choices about learning, understand different career paths, and connect what they learn with what companies are looking for. These new training methods will also help professionals better understand cybersecurity risks and learn the skills needed to create secure and strong technology solutions.

Thinking about students, teachers, and professionals as the people who need to learn about cybersecurity, the workshop aims to talk about how we can better match the companies' demand (workplace, recruitment) and supply (qualification, training). We aim to raise awareness among these learners (i.e., increase end-user awareness), help identify the crucial skills that are required for their work, and encourage a more unified approach to teaching and training in cybersecurity.

The proceedings of the workshop were published by CEUR.ws and are available at the follow link:

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3700/

Link to previous edition's page ↗️

Important Dates 📅

• Submission deadline:  27th March 2024  10th April 2024 (extended)

• Notification: 19th April 2024  23rd April 2024

• Camera-ready: 5th May 2024

• Registration due: 10th May 2024

• Workshop celebration: 4th June 2024