Press release
CyberSecurity Business.School – CSB.School – the first graduate school dedicated to cybersecurity management, will open its doors in Lyon from September 1, 2022.
Founded by cybersecurity and education professionals, CSB.School offers an educational model that gives all types of talent the chance to flourish in a field of the future, and that helps cybersecurity players to meet to a growing shortage of resources.
CSB.School is moving to 39 rue de la Cité, the heart of Lyon’s business district, in a 2400m2 building entirely designed and rehabilitated by the Carré d’Or Group, located less than 10 minutes’ walk from the Hub Multimodal Gare Part-Dieu.
A strategic location, in the heart of Lyon’s business district
The installation in this prime location is the result of a remarkable collective effort involving CSB.School, JLL and Groupe Carré d’Or.
Patrice CHELIM, founder and Managing Director of CSB.School comments:
“Central geographical location and European crossroads, an economic basin bringing together major players from both the tertiary and industrial sectors, the Métropole de Lyon has quickly established itself as the place of ideal location of the first cyber campus of CSB.School, exclusively dedicated to learning the management of computer and industrial cybersecurity.”
CSB.School was supported by JLL, which was able to grasp the spirit of the project and give CSB.School the benefit of its expertise in the Lyon real estate market to identify an operation in perfect harmony with the deployment of an innovative educational model in the buoyant field. cybersecurity:
Stéphane Jullien, JLL Offices Department Director in Lyon, comments: “Very happy to have accompanied CSB.School in the realization of this project with multiple challenges.”
The Carré d’Or Group trusted the CSB.School project, finding common values of entrepreneurship and innovation:
Alain Dutoit, founder and CEO of the Carré d’Or Group comments:
“We were immediately seduced by the CSB.School project, we must admit that somewhere we share the same concern: “sustainably protecting an environment”, for them in a digital universe for us in the real world!”
Convergence of digital and ecological transitions
Aware of the challenges posed by the ecological and digital transitions, which are converging and profoundly transforming the world in which we live, this project is part of a sustainable development approach. CSB.School will take up residence in a completely regenerated building, aiming for the most demanding environmental certifications and standards in force, namely BREEAM level Excellent.
A place of expertise, designed as an extension of the company
Learning about cybersecurity comes first and foremost through practice. CSB.School dedicates more than 350m2 to this through simulators replicating the tertiary and industrial environments found in the workplace. In particular, the latter make it possible to freely reproduce cybersecurity incidents.
CSB.School has entrusted the design of the facilities to the Tétris teams, with the aim of reflecting the professional environment in which the students will evolve at the end of their training.
The admission process is underway for students who will join the CSB.School for the 3rd year of Bachelor and the 2 years of Master which will open at the start of the school year in September 2022.
In order to highlight what cybersecurity is, the campus will be accessible and open to all, all year round.