From Academia to Cybersecurity Career - A Chat with Emlyon Business School

The cybersecurity employment market is in a unique situation - teams are often underfunded and overtaxed, while layoffs at big tech and other security-reliant critical firms have left insecurity in the industry - as regulatory requirements and evolving threats require ever more attention to the topic.

Meanwhile, academic institutions are continuously challenged to improve their approaches to developing the next generation of talent.  Cyber- and information security are broad topics, and benefit from a wide range of knowledge, experiences, and areas of study - not just hard core hands-on tech skills.

This raises questions about how aspiring cybersecurity experts should direct their studies, and how academic leaders and institutions can support them in this journey.

Today we welcome Dr. Gergely "Greg" Dzsinich, CyAN board member and professor at Emlyon business school in Lyon, France, and Florian Muntner, a masters degree candidate embarking on a cybersecurity career later this year who is supporting a privacy project led by Prof. Dzsinich.

Join us as we talk about a wide range of considerations when aiming for a cybersecurity career via various academic disciplines, as well as the unique project approach of the Emlyon team to create continuity among successive "generations" of students aiming for careers in the cybersecurity field.

You can find Dr. Dzsinich on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdzsinich/
...and Florian Muntner here:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-muntner/

This episode of Secure-in-Mind is also available in video form at https://youtu.be/yQWF1DNubbU

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