Bridge between technology, security, legislation and ethics

Companies and governments are in dire need of specialists and managers with knowledge of three separate fields: data management, cybersecurity and privacy legislation. It's a rare combination, prompting the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) at Maastricht University to establish a dedicated Advanced Master's degree. The programme has met with considerable interest both in Europe and beyond. Data has been called the new oil of the economy. Using this digital fuel, however, requires many new people with diverse skill sets. "Europe is short some 350,000 specialists," says Cosimo Monda, director of the ECPC, which was established in 2016 at the Faculty of Law. "That's a huge number, from cyber-intelligence analysts and cybersecurity experts to information-security officers and data scientists.