With the support of the State Government, young people, and university teachers from Yucatan are participating in the intensive cybersecurity training camp of the Cyber Innovation Center of Wales, where they will have the opportunity to add learning, skills, and new experiences that will help them become specialized and well-prepared professionals, ready to access more competitive jobs and a better future.
The group made up of 5 students and 5 teachers from higher education institutions in the state traveled to the Welsh capital of Cardiff, in the United Kingdom, where for two weeks they will be intensively preparing in the field to bring specialized knowledge to Yucatan that will allow them to access better job opportunities.
There they were received by the talent team of said Cybersecurity Training Center, which is one of the most advanced in Great Britain and all of Europe, where the world’s leading researchers converge to train on that topic, real-time risk models, and decision-making.
This training is the result of the signing of a Letter of Intent for Collaboration between the Polytechnic University of Yucatan and Cardiff University on January 29, 2024, during Governor Mauricio Vila Dosal’s work visit to Wales. The agreement focuses on research, innovation, and skills development in cybersecurity, and establishes a framework for joint stays that strengthen the cybersecurity ecosystem in both districts.
The group is made up of 4 students from the Polytechnic University of Yucatan, 1 student from the Anáhuac Mayab University, as well as 2 professors from the Autonomous University of Yucatan, 2 from the Polytechnic University of Yucatan and 1 from the Metropolitan Technological University.
For more than two weeks, they will be trained by leaders in innovation and frontier research on the latest advances in cybersecurity and its role in governments, companies, and organizations.
Led by Cardiff University and the University of South Wales, the CIH focuses on developing innovative cyber products, fostering high-growth businesses, and creating talent in the region.
The Cyber Innovation Hub (CIH) aims to position South Wales as a major cyber cluster by 2030. Among other training courses, they provide the latest in network security, cloud cybersecurity, the use of interactive labs, network defense in depth, security monitoring, and compliance with technology regulations.
The course covers skills in high demand in the cybersecurity sector, including incident response, network monitoring and intrusion detection, cybersecurity governance, risk management, and secure operations.
The content is taught by cybersecurity experts from Cardiff University and the University of South Wales, the only universities in Wales to have received the Gold Award as Academic Centers of Excellence in Cyber Education from the NCSC, and which have won multiple awards, including Cyber University of the Year. In addition, the program includes visits to leading cybersecurity companies, such as Thales and Airbus.
It should be remembered that this type of opportunity for young Yucatecans is the result of the promotion that Vila Dosal has carried out in different parts of the world, such as Wales, where he was at the beginning of the year strengthening cooperation in cybersecurity with Cardiff University.
During his working tour in that part of Europe, the Governor met with Yulia Cherdantseva, Director of the Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity, Research and Education at Cardiff University, to promote projects in this area, as well as improve higher education and human talent that allows more companies to establish themselves in Yucatan to generate more and better jobs for Yucatecans.
He visited the School of Computer Science and Informatics of said university and took the opportunity to exchange good academic practices to strengthen the career and specialty in cybersecurity that state universities have, to better prepare young Yucatecans.
Currently, Yucatán has a career in Cybersecurity Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Yucatán (UPY) and a specialty in Cybersecurity at the Metropolitan Technological University (UTM), both of which are the first in the southeast of the country.
Both universities each have a Cybersecurity Laboratory designed for the development of specialists in the field and for the research and innovation of government procedures, management, detection, and response to emerging digital threats in different areas.
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