Cybersecurity Scenario Builder and Retrieval Toolkit
Our ever-increasing dependence on information technology brings us to new crossroads and challenges confronting national security protection. Both private and public entities recognized these issues and are currently making progress toward addressing the
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1 Introduction As our nation’s well-being and economy become more dependent on our information infrastructure, the need for a trained cybersecurity workforce has never been so critical. It is imperative that the current and future cyber warriors and workforce be educated and trained on the security of such systems. It is equally important that careful and deliberate considerations must be exercised in designing and implementing educational and training activities to address these issues. Indeed, the call for a disruptive and yet transformative cybersecurity training is upon us. The innovative cybersecurity education project builds upon two very successful projects on cybersecurity training: an NSF-sponsored capacity building project for faculty development in ICS security [1] and an NSA-sponsored Gamification of Cybersecurity Training project [2]. The faculty development project conducted professional development workshops on ICS security in three successive summers. Overall, the pre- and postworkshop surveys indicate that the topics for the workshop were well chosen and well delivered, and the ICS toolkit was rated as excellent. The results highlight that ICS security is a topic that is not well covered in information assurance/cybersecurity curricula and the workshop, as intended, highlighted the importance of that and other aspects of cybersecurity and provided instructors with tools (the toolkit and the laboratory activities) to integrate ICS security into their courses. The Gamification of Cybersecurity Training project integrated digital games into the learning process. The cybersecurity-based games were tested for efficacy on K–12 students and teachers participating in GenCyber camps, and the results were overwhelmingly positive. The project builds on the success of these two
G. Francia III () · T. Ghosh · G. Hall · E. El-Sheikh Center for Cybersecurity, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, USA e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 K. Daimi, G. Francia III (eds.), Innovations in Cybersecurity Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50244-7_14
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cybersecurity learning projects to effectively fill a void in cybersecurity education among CAE schools and cybersecurity training for DoD personnel across the nation.
Key Challenges The key challenges with cybersecurity education and training are the following: • The state of information technology, both on the software and hardware aspects, is rapidly evolving. • The human element of cybersecurity is the weakest link. • The ineffectiveness or lack of availability of hands-on cybersecurity training exercises. • The lack of laboratories and testbeds for advanced cybersecurity education and training. • The lack of realistic cybersecurity case scenarios that are delivered interactively in a virtual environment. • The shortage of cybersecurity educators and trainers. • The scarcity of cybersecurity professionals.
Objectives Recognizing these key c
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