CHALLENGES TO DIGITAL SOCIETY: PROBLEMS OF TRAINING INFORMATION SECURITY SPECIALISTS УДК 004.056

Abstract

The paper discusses pressing problems and challenges to the modern digital society from the viewpoint of cybersecurity specialists and their professional activities. It is stated that cybersecurity specialists need an adequate level of the required specific professional competences to successfully overcome the noted problems and challenges. Therefore, such competences should be managed by the necessary study courses and modules in the cybersecurity and information security curricula of universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education. A comparative analysis of cybersecurity curricula of several universities and colleges of BRICS countries (namely, Russia, China, and India) conducted in the paper reveals the lack of such study courses in the analyzed curricula. The paper concludes with several pivotal questions on prospective designs of the cybersecurity curricula that should help form and develop the required professional competences. This work was presented as a speaker paper at the International BRICS Roundtable «Digital Society: Trends, Opportunities & Risks», held on August 22, 2024, at the Altai State University, Barnaul, Russia.