ENISA ECSF v1

European Cybersecurity Skills Framework

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Published

May 8, 2026

At a glance

Steward European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)
Canonical page European Cybersecurity Skills Framework
Version 1
Released 2022-09-19
Source format PDF report with companion JSON and XLSX
License Subject to ENISA’s re-use notice. Verify against the source artefact
framework_summary slug ecsf-v1

Structure in cybed: terms

ENISA ECSF structural mapping Framework ecsf:Framework Profile ecsf:Profile = cybed:Role = cybed:OrganizingUnit KSA ecsf:KSA = cybed:RoleElement contains cybed:hasOrganizingUnit has element cybed:hasElement
Click any box or edge label to flip between plain English and the technical schema name.

Counts

Measure Value
Profiles 12
Strict elements 390
With-examples elements 390
Elements per profile 32.5

Provenance

Source

ENISA’s ECSF reference document.

Ingestion

scripts/010-ingest-ecsf.R parses the structure into the cybed schema.

License

ENISA’s re-use notice governs redistribution. The package does not bundle ECSF source text. Users stage it locally.

Caveats

  • ECSF profiles point at the European e-Competence Framework (e-CF) at fine granularity, but those cross-references are not expanded into RDF triples. Full ECSF coverage requires consulting the source’s e-CF pointers directly.
  • ECSF is aspirational by design. The framework was authored as a high-level interoperability frame across European cybersecurity workforce vocabularies, not as a hiring-grade enumeration like NICE or DCWF. Per-profile element counts read low because the framework is intentionally light at this layer.
  • The ingested data reflects ENISA’s published export at retrieval time. Re-run the ingestion script against a newer export to pick up subsequent versions.
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ENISA re-use notice