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Many organizations struggle with cyber security issues and the demands on protecting corporate assets. Finding high quality candidates for a cyber talent “pipeline” can be a challenge. Many potential employees claim to have knowledge relating to this field, made apparent by the abundance of certification acronyms present on many resumes. In order to better assess this field of applicants, the interview process can be augmented through the process of gamification, whereby applicants are asked to prove their technical abilities by competing in a hands-on capture-the-flag style competition. In this paper, I discuss an approach currently used by MITRE to build a corporate talent pipeline in cyber security through the use of challenge competitions across high school, university and professional levels. I provide updated results based on using this approach over the span of several years.
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Cherinka, R. (2019). Using Cyber Competitions to Build a Cyber Security Talent Pipeline and Skilled Workforce. In: Arai, K., Kapoor, S., Bhatia, R. (eds) Intelligent Computing. SAI 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 857. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01177-2_20
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