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Discover New CADMUS Trainings Tackling Europe’s Growing Cybersecurity Skills Gap
As demand for cybersecurity expertise continues to grow, equipping professionals with the right skills has become increasingly important. The European Cadmus programme responds to this challenge with a new range of training opportunities, developed to address the skills and competencies employers need. Registration for new modules ‘Basics of Security Hardening of Networking Devices’ and ‘Advanced Layer 2 Switching and Security Strategies’ are now open and currently free of charge.
The trainings are build on cybersecurity competence research ( ENG / NL ) conducted by Security Delta (HSD) and Centrum voor Veiligheid & Digitalisering (CVD) in the Netherlands, which identified the skills employers are looking for and highlighted gaps in the current workforce. These insights have been translated into targeted training programmes designed to meet labour market needs and help professionals strengthen and expand their cybersecurity knowledge and skills.
New trainings - currently free of charge
The two new trainings have been developed by the Algebra Bernays University from Croatia, the first requires basic understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts. Familiarity with network devices (switches, routers, firewalls) is desirable but not required. The second builds on the knowledge from the first module but can be followed separately if you have prior exposure to network security and switching concepts.
1) ‘Basics of Security Hardening of Networking Devices’ (Online)
Available for free: 15 – 25 Nov 2026
Time: 12 hours, self-paced learning
2) ‘Advanced Layer 2 Switching and Security Strategies’ (Online)
Available for free: 22 Nov – 2 Dec 2026
Time: 12 hours, self-paced learning
Do you want to enhance your knowledge and invest in your professional development? Register today and start learning from the 15 November!
CADMUS-project
The CADMUS-project aims to address the cybersecurity expertise shortage in Europe by developing targeted training opportunities based on approaches including cyber range projects, games, hackathons, bootcamps, and traineeships. These interventions upskill educators, trainers, SME’s and startup employees, civil servants as well as graduate students who target cybersecurity careers.
The CADMUS consortium, comprised of 7 organisations based in Europe and led by the National Cybersecurity Authority of Greece, has received a 3-year grant to address the cybersecurity expertise shortage in Europe, end of 2024. With this grant of €3.14 million the consortium executes a € 6.3 million programme, co-funded amongst others by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs/RVO and European Commission through the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) as part of the Digital Europe Programme.
The CADMUS consortium partners are the Centrum voor Veiligheid & Digitalisering (CVD) and Security Delta (HSD) from The Netherlands together with the Hellenic National Cybersecurity Authority (NCSA, Greece, coordinator), Computer Technology Institute and Press “Diophantus” (CTI, Greece), Algebra Bernays University (ABU, Croatia), Digital Security Authority (DSA, Cyprus) and European University Cyprus (EUC, Cyprus).
More information on the CADMUS-project here!
This project has received funding from the DIGITAL-2023-SKILLS-05-CYBERACADEMY under Grant Agreement No. 101190006.
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