ALLEVIATING CYBERSECURITY’S WORKFORCE GAP COUNTRY: Peru SCHOOL: ESAN Graduate School of Business The global gap between the supply of cybersecurity professionals and current demand has recently been estimated at 3.4 million, according to the (ISC)² Cybersecurity Workforce Study 2022. The expectations are that this demand will only continue to grow as the cybersecurity market becomes worth more than $370 billion by 2029. To meet the growing demand for specialists in this area of business and management, ESAN Graduate School of Business is launching a master’s degree in cybersecurity and privacy management. Freddy Alvarado Vargas, director of the new programme, said its aim is “to train professionals capable of ensuring the confidentiality, availability and integrity of data, and mitigating the risks of cyber threats.” The programme is a dual offering developed in conjunction with La Salle in Barcelona, Spain, a founding
member of the Ramon Llull University that is also home to Esade Business School. Its curriculum, meanwhile, is structured around the phases of a cybersecurity ‘lifecycle’ (identify, protect, detect, respond and recover) to offer courses on topics that include digital security, regulations, risk management, cyber defence and data protection, among others. The programme is to be delivered in a blended mode over two years with an approximate 70:30 split between synchronous online learning, to be held on weekday evenings and Saturday mornings, as well as in-person study. In addition to time on the ESAN campus in Lima, the in‑person element features two weeks of study at La Salle; during this period participants will also visit and learn from cybersecurity and privacy management companies based in Barcelona. Further international expertise on the subject of national security strategies and government policies will also be on hand from the William J Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, an institution of the US Department of Defense. “In a totally hyperconnected and digitised world, the demand for experts in preventing data and information theft to ensure digital trust is increasing, giving this type of specialty a great projection for the future,” added Alvarado. The programme kicks off in May 2023. TBD
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