With this milestone, the bank becomes the first financial institution in the world to share its knowledge in
cybersecurity through Coursera, a learning platform that has 97 million registered students. As experts in cybersecurity, BBVA’s goal is to educate, motivate and empower its customers, and society in general, so that they acquire safe behaviors in order to properly manage the risks of the digital age.
Cybersecurity has become a basic and highly required skill in the labor market, but also in the personal sphere. The acceleration of
digital transformation has meant an increase in the area of exposure to risk for individuals and companies, with the appearance of new threats, each
increasingly sophisticated. The Covid-19 pandemic or the war in Ukraine make the need for basic knowledge of
cybersecurity.
At BBVA, security is considered not only as a strategic priority, but as one of the main elements in its digital transformation. Cybersecurity is one of the pillars to carry out this strategy, and the training and awareness of employees has been one of the essential elements. “Through Campus BBVA, our training model, we design learning solutions that respond to the present and future needs of our professionals. In the last year we carried out an in-depth ‘reskilling’ and ‘upskilling’ exercise to prepare our collaborators in the skills that were going to mark the bank’s strategy in the coming years”, explained Alberto Parra, Director of Talent & Culture at BBVA In uruguay.
Among those capabilities was cybersecurity and since then, the entity has trained nearly 60,000 employees worldwide. “We count
with some of the best cybersecurity experts and a large part of the staff has already acquired basic knowledge in this area. Now we want to go further and take advantage of all our experience to bring it to a wider audience, ”he adds.
BBVA wants to massively share this knowledge and experience and make all this knowledge available to society through a series of training itineraries through the international Coursera platform.
With this release open and free to anyone “we offer specific and pioneering cybersecurity content available to everyone, one of the most
The fundamental pillars of our organization is to share knowledge to learn together and thus be able to create opportunities for all”.
As a starting point, anyone can now access a MOOC course (Massive Online Open Courses) on Cybersecurity for free. It’s about him
The first training resource in Spanish of a series of initiatives that will be expanded in the coming months and that will offer essential knowledge in cybersecurity as well as valid content for defense in the personal sphere, crisis management, fundamental notions in security operations , data security, the fight against fraud or information security and data governance.
“Training employees and society as a whole is a great lever for attracting talent, and we want to give visibility and publicity to all the opportunities that the bank offers”, says Parra. The new agreement with Coursera joins BBVA’s own programs such as ‘Learning Together’ and the collaborations the bank has with leading organizations in the training market (LinkedIn Learning, Get Smarter) to offer the best up-to-date training to its employees.
