Cyber Duality Podcast Episode 3: Cybersecurity Capacity Building: Language, Resilience and Trust Across Sectors

How do cybersecurity experts see the challenges, gaps, and future of cooperation between civilian and defence actors in Europe?

Cyber Duality: A COcyber Podcast is part of the EU-funded COcyber project and brings together leading experts to answer this question. Each episode explores their experience, the challenges they face in practice, and how collaboration between sectors can be improved.

Through short, focused conversations, the podcast provides practical insights into real-world cybersecurity issues and highlights what needs to change to strengthen Europe’s cyber resilience.

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In this episode of Cyber Duality: a COcyber Podcast, Dr. Vilius Benetis discusses cybersecurity capacity building through his experience supporting Computer Emergency Response Teams and Security Operations Centers across Europe and beyond. 

The conversation explores how terminology, bureaucracy, organisational cultures and different defence objectives shape civil–defence cyber collaboration, while highlighting trust, ecosystems and resilience as practical foundations for stronger cooperation.