A Framework for Cybersecurity Gap Analysis in Higher Education

The gap between those qualified for jobs in cybersecurity, and the needs of professionals remains an issue, despite the recent emergence of the importance of cybersecurity. Our project develops a holistic framework to perform a gap analysis by which institutes of higher education can start to understand and identify methods through which they can work to address this gap. While most existing frameworks focus purely on the curricular perspective, our framework extends this to also explore program capacity and the pipeline of incoming students