CyberBridge: Bridging the Gap Between Cybersecurity Education and Industry

Computer Science > Cryptography and Security [Submitted on 5 Aug 2026] CyberBridge: Bridging the Gap Between Cybersecurity Education and Industry Arthur Nijdam, Paul Stankovski Wagner, Sara Ramezanian This full research paper presents CyberBridge, a framework that automatically maps cybersecurity job descrip- tions to professional role profiles. As the cybersecurity landscape evolves rapidly, it is difficult for academic programs to align curricula with the competencies expected in practice. CyberBridge addresses this gap by decomposing a given vacancy description into its constituent Knowledge, Skill, and Task (KST) statements, embedding them using a sentence- BERT model, and matching them to the most semantically similar workforce profiles. A key contribution of our approach is its interpretability. Rather than functioning as a black box, CyberBridge enables users to trace recommendations back to the specific competencies driving each match, providing a human- readable justification for the resulting mappings. CyberBridge supports three primary use cases; (1) job recom- mendation, providing students with vacancies and closely match- ing professional roles based on their completed curriculum, (2) market analysis, enabling educators and curriculum developers to analyze which roles are currently in demand, and (3) curriculum planning, assessing which course program best prepares students for in-demand cybersecurity roles. As such, CyberBridge can be used by educational institutions as a practical tool for career guidance and evidence-based curriculum development in cybersecurity education. Subjects: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) Cite as: arXiv:2608.05231 [cs.CR]   (or arXiv:2608.05231v1 [cs.CR] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.05231 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Arthur Nijdam [view email] [v1] Wed, 5 Aug 2026 12:47:59 UTC (288 KB) Access Paper: view license Current browse context: cs.CR < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)