About TAFEcyber

As a successful initiative awarded funding through the AustCyber Projects Fund in 2019, TAFEcyber is a national consortium of VET providers, providing a collaborative and innovative approach to cyber security training across Australia.

TAFEcyber’s work focuses on achieving a consistently high level of quality for cyber security training through course material enhancement, ensuring industry currency of its lecturers and providing graduates who are skilled to meet the demands of the Cyber Security industry.

The TAFEcyber priorities are supported by key government and industry partners including:

• Australian Government Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC). The ACSC leads the Australian Government’s efforts to improve cyber security.

• Future Skills Organisation (FSO). FSO is a Jobs and Skills Council focused on the skills needed for careers in the finance, technology and business sectors.

With 14 TAFEcyber members nationally, our consortium members provide a range of cyber security qualifications, and provides exciting opportunities supported by industry including:

• The Essential Eight Assessment Course - The ACSC is working with TAFEcyber as a delivery partner to grow a pool of Essential Eight Assessors nationwide who can assist government and industry better apply the Essential Eight Assessment Guidance Package more accurately and consistently. This training course is designed to provide individuals with the understanding of how to perform an assessment of an organisation’s maturity against the Essential Eight Maturity Model. The Essential Eight Maturity Model describes eight strategies that organisations can use to mitigate the effects of a cyber-attack.  In time, this training course will become a stepping stone course for prospective Infosec Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) assessors to complete their professional pathway to full IRAP endorsement and form a key part of the Australian cyber security training ecosystem.

• A rich repository of course materials for our members which are quality assured.

• A national student Cyber Battle event with the Australian Cyber Collaboration Centre (Aus3C), using the skills needed for industry in a simulated environment. This event ensures our students can compete on a national scale and to industry expectations.

• Providing our trainers with the best professional development, to ensure the most current skills and knowledge are passed onto our future workforce.

As a national consortium, our role is to provide high quality and innovative approaches to the learning experiences of students and lecturers in the cyber security field at TAFE.