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CyberBridge is a novel framework that automatically aligns cybersecurity job descriptions with professional role profiles by decomposing vacancy descriptions into Knowledge, Skill, and Task (KST) statements and embedding them using a sentence-BERT model. This approach not only enhances the interpretability of job recommendations by providing clear justifications for each mapping but also supports various use cases, including job recommendation, market analysis, and curriculum planning. The key result demonstrates that CyberBridge effectively bridges the gap between academic cybersecurity education and industry requirements, making it a valuable tool for educators and students alike.
CyberBridge reveals how a transparent mapping of job competencies can transform cybersecurity education and career guidance.
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.
