Strategic Importance of Education in Cybersecurity

Abstract

This paper examines the strategic importance of cybersecurity education as a pedagogical and managerial mechanism for strengthening organisational resilience. Responding to the need for practice-orientated engineering pedagogy, the paper formulates a guiding research question: How can role-specific cybersecurity education be selected, justified, and evaluated so that it supports resilient behaviour across organisational levels? The study combines a structured narrative review of cybersecurity education and awareness approaches with a transparent SWOT-based analytical framework. SWOT is used as a managerial self-assessment tool for identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in both the general cybersecurity environment and the human-factor dimension. The paper distinguishes gamification from games, explains the rationale for selecting educational approaches, and proposes operational criteria for translating SWOT findings into training requirements. The contribution is intended for educators, cybersecurity managers, and organisational leaders who design or evaluate cybersecurity awareness programmes in engineering-orientated, technical, and socio-technical environments.