Cybersecurity places increased demands on technical knowledge and depth of development of various fields of applied mathematics and IT technologies, and at the same time, this area is criminalized, which makes it difficult for beginners to acquire many practical skills. The experience of the faculty of the CMC of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Faculty of Computer Science of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, shows how the combination of academic freedom, science, education and business allows us to vertically and horizontally scale human resources in this area.