ОRGANIZATION OF PROFESSIONAL CYBERSECURITY PERSONNEL TRAINING DURING THE SPECIAL PERIOD

Abstract

The dynamic development of the Ukrainian state requires an almost annual adjustment of conceptual approaches to the advance in information technology and to cybersecurity issues in the society. The higher education system becomes a strategic area of raising professional competences in specialists to cater for the global labor market. It is getting highly relevant to adapt these issues not only in legal, regulatory and economic terms, but also in terms of dynamic restructuring of the general goal and strategic directions of reforming all education sectors to be consistent with the world standards. The Ukrainian state is building its own national system of the IT industry and the appropriate cybersecurity environment. Currently, the training of qualified cybersecurity specialists has got an extremely relevant issue worldwide. Given today’s labor market trends, the higher education institutions that train such specialists are growing in numbers. Until recently, the training of such personnel in Ukraine was fairly limited, and young people graduating in this profession had to seek employment abroad or work within Ukraine for the needs of foreign customers. This situation has been developing over the past several years and has led to an increased shortage of skilled cybersecurity specialists. The publication has a benchmark analysis made to study the training of Ukrainians in the “Information Technology” profession (including in 125 “Cybersecurity” area of expertise) in the following higher education degrees: 1st (bachelor), 2nd (master), 3rd (academic and research) and research, and by territory; the results show that Ukrainian higher education institutions are scattered unequally, which, in turn, leads to unequal further employment of cybersecurity specialists and has a significant impact on their demand in the IT market. Presently, the public and private higher education institutions have been found out to also organize the advanced training of IT specialists in the “Information Technology” profession and in cybersecurity issues. According to the resulting list of public and private higher education institutions that organize advanced training in information technology and cybersecurity, the conclusion is that cybereducation is just evolving in most regions of Ukraine.