Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity (ETACS 2023)
to be held in conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2023 – http://www.ares-conference.eu)

August 29, 2023, Benevento, Italy

Workshop Description:
The current lack of cybersecurity experts on the world job market is a significant problem that can be solved only by coordinated and focused development of higher education and professional training programs. All topics related to cybersecurity education, training and awareness will be considered for the Workshop on Education, Training and Awareness in Cybersecurity (ETACS). ETACS seeks for novel submissions from academia, government as well as industry contributing to cybersecurity education, training and awareness. The focus is on practical research into higher-education cybersecurity curricula, professional training, building of cyber ranges and their coalitions across Europe, methods to assess and raise awareness in cybersecurity, the implementation of systems, and lessons learned. Furthermore, the EU-wide agreement on the identification of skills necessary for cybersecurity work roles is one of the main interests of the workshop. The event aims at putting together people form universities, professional training institutions, industry, government and EU agencies to discuss current problems and solutions for cybersecurity education and training.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Description and application of cybersecurity skills frameworks
• Comparison of existing skills frameworks, contributions to the EU Skills Framework
• Description of curricula related to cybersecurity
• Lessons learned from a training experience
• Lessons learned from the use of a given technology
• Publication of a tool related to cyber ranges
• Gamification, capture the flag, red/blue teaming,
• Piloting cybersecurity study programs and trainings
• Feedback on awareness campaigns

Important Dates
Submission Deadline April 20, 2023
Author Notification June 14, 2023
Proceedings Version June 28, 2023
ARES EU Symposium August 29, 2023

Program Chair/ Workshop Chair
General Chair:
• Jan Hajny (SPARTA, Brno University of Technology, CZ)

Co-Chairs:
• Pavel Loutocky (Masaryk University, CZ)
• Giuseppe Bianchi (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, IT)
• Rocco De Nicola (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, IT)
• Sara Ricci (Brno University of Technology, CZ)

Program Committee
• Tanja Zseby (TU Wien, AT)
• Letterio Galletta (IMT Lucca, IT)
• Olivier Levillain (Télécom SudParis, FR)
• Marc Ohm (University of Bonn, DE)
• Pedro Adao (University of Lisbon, PT)
• Sergej Proskurin (Technische Universität München, DE)
• Edmundas Piesarskas (Lithuanian Cybercrime Center of Excellence for Training, Research & Education, LT)

The workshop is supported by the European Union’s Erasmus+ project #621701-EPP-1-2020-1-LT-EPPKA2-SSA-B REWIRE, Horizon Europe project #101087529 CHESS and the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic under grant VJ03030003 under program IMPAKT 1.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.