Learn more about ENISA's European Cybersecurity Skills Framework (ECSF)!
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date: 20/09/2022
The ECSF provides an open European tool to build a common understanding of the cybersecurity professional role profiles and common mappings with the appropriate skills and competences required.
The framework is complemented by a user manual, which constitutes a practical guide for its utilization, based on examples and use cases. The manual includes three examples for private organizations, that need to hire, upskill and/or reskill their personnel in cybersecurity, along with use cases, which represents the experience of seven organisations using the ECSF in different contexts.
A draft version of the framework was presented to the public in April 2022 via a webinar. On 20 and 21 September, the final version of the ECSF and its user manual were presented during the ENISA cybersecurity skills conference.
The framework consists of 2 documents:
- The ECSF Role Profiles document – Listing the 12 typical cybersecurity professional role profiles along with their identified titles, missions, tasks, skills, knowledge, competences.
- The ECSF User Manual document – Providing guidance and practical examples on how to leverage the framework and benefit from it as an organisation, provider of learning programmes or individual.