The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has rolled out a new cyber-awareness tool this year to assist businesses to design and implement cybersecurity public relations campaigns. Antanas Aleknavičius, Head of the Cybersecurity and Information Technology Policy Group at the Ministry of National Defence, says it is a much needed tool as communication in the centerpiece of strategies to bring behavioral change in the society.
According to A. Aleknavičius, it is critical to make sure every company working in the area of cybersecurity is able to communicate its messages clearly. ENISA has developed the Awareness-Raising-in-a-Box (AR-in-a-BOX) communications solutions toolkit to address that in the public sector and among critical service providers.
The toolkit provides theoretical and practical guidance on developing and implementing effective cybersecurity awareness campaigns. It includes a range of theoretical and practical aid, from instructions on determining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for campaign success to cyberattack simulations and quizzes that facilitate cybersecurity principle and term learning in an organisation.
According to ENISA, not only a lack of effective education but also the lack of qualified cybersecurity experts in labor market presents a problem for economic development and national security, especially in the context of the quick digitalization of the global economy.
The European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF) developed by ENISA defines 12 major cybersecurity expert roles. The main ECSF goal is to create a shared understanding of cybersecurity skills in citizens, employers and learning system providers in order to make identification of the market requirement easier and to establish the missing competencies through the different training programs across all EU member states.
The Cyber Competence Map Lithuania 2022 developed in 2022 by the scientific staffs of Vilnius University and the General Jonas Žemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania reveals distribution of the cybersecurity competencies in Lithuania. While the study builds on the most prominent cybersecurity competence models (NIST NICE, ENISA), it offers a refined Lithuania-unique model that best reflects the national status quo. It identifies the requirement of cybersecurity professional competencies in Lithuania, offers a national cyber competence map and recommendations for competence development and attraction of new employees to the area of cybersecurity in order to fill in the qualified personnel gap.
The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) was established in 2004 in Athens to pursue the central mission of elevating the general cybersecurity level in the EU. As ENISA contributes to cybersecurity of organisations and companies and strengthens confidence in digital economy, it also increases more safety for every EU citizen in digital space.
