🚨 Universities Must Embed Cybersecurity: Crucial for Future Workforce & ICT/BPM Growth.

• Urgency: Accelerating digital transformation and increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats necessitate making cybersecurity knowledge indispensable for all graduates, not just InfoSec majors. • Threat Level: The human factor remains the top cause of breaches. Kaspersky reported 900 million phishing attempts globally in 2024, a 26% YoY increase, underscoring the persistent threat of social engineering. • Strategic Importance: Integrating cybersecurity (e.g., ethical hacking, cryptography) in curricula equips graduates with highly valued skills to anticipate and mitigate threats, vital for sectors like ICT/BPM and engineering. This also contributes to global cyber sustainability. • Business Impact: Cyber-aware employees ensure better data compliance, avoid errors that create security loopholes, and reduce long-term financial costs from potential violations and fines. It also boosts career mobility. • Solution: Kaspersky Academy has developed a free online course, 'Cybersecurity: Entry Level', for first- and second-year students across all majors to bridge this critical knowledge gap and instill a "security-first mindset" for both professional and personal resilience.