Mykolo Romerio universitetas / Mykolas Romeris University

DIGITAL4Security is an innovative and market-led European Masters Programme in Cybersecurity Management & Data Sovereignty that will equip European SMEs and Companies across multiple sectors with the cybersecurity management, regulatory and technical skills they need to prevent and respond to existing and emerging cybersecurity threats, helping to safeguard European industries from cyber-attack. Our Digital4Security Programme will be market and industry demand-led at its core, continuously adapting and evolving to address current and future cybersecurity risks and supporting European companies, and in particular SMEs, to minimize security risks, build robust defenses, and effectively manage any cyber incident. DIGITAL4Security will contribute to the overall objectives of the DIGITAL Europe Programme by fast-tracking high numbers of graduates into high demand roles from the European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF), filling crucial occupational profiles that are critical to the ongoing security and success of European businesses. Our objective is to reskill and upskill graduates, professionals, managers, and business leaders to become ‘Cyber Confident’ and empowered with the cybersecurity management expertise they need to strengthen their cybersecurity infrastructure and implement robust incident prevention and management procedures. The global objective of this project is to design and implement a highly innovative, effective and sustainable European Cyber-security Masters Programme that will provide a continuous supply of qualified cybersecurity management experts, helping to address the growing cybersecurity skills gap that is endangering the stability of many European industries and public sector institutions. The programme will be designed to appeal to the broadest possible catchment of potential students and companies from many different sectors, demographics, and cultural backgrounds; ensuring gender equality and including students from diversity groups.

Developing and deploying SOC capabilities for the academic sector - a teamwork of Universities and RTOs in the CEE region project is aimed at strengthening the cybersecurity capabilities and resilience of the EU by supporting the development of Security Operations Centres (SOC) preparedness, readiness, capabilities, and infrastructure within the academic sector – Universities and Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) particularly in the Central Eastern Europe (CEE). The CEE region is now being heavily affected by a multitude of cyber operations executed parallelly to growing geopolitical tensions, the same trend can be observed regarding the academic centres which are now under a permanent threat, experiencing “the highest volumes of attacks every month in 2022 and in 2021”. Thus, the project is expected to support a structured and underpinned with unified methodology, development and deployment of SOC infrastructure and services within academic centres involved in the project’s consortium. This includes a creation of a Toolbox to share best practices regarding the SOC establishment and models of possible SOC services deployment and integration. Academic sector saturation with given SOC solutions will result in better monitoring, detection and response to cyberattacks and threats, including knowledge and cybersecurity threat intelligence (CTI) sharing (vulnerability databases), as well as supporting the popularisation of a framework for joint reaction against cyber incidents (FIRST, SIM3). An important objective of the project is a popularization of knowledge about the SOC development, deployment, and functioning and a buildout of relevant SOC’s skills across cybersecurity community within universities, a future grouping of cybersecurity professionals expected to support private and public entities in upgrading their cybersecurity capabilities.