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Integrating Cyber Range Technologies and Certification Programs to Improve Cybersecurity Training Programs

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The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education (ICL 2018)

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Today more than ever, computer science students with actionable security skills are in high demand and this requirement is not expected to change in the near future [1]. Schools that provide traditional computer science education programs do a satisfactory job of exposing students to cybersecurity principles and some schools small labs that provide training. Industry essential cyber skills aren’t traditionally taught inside most undergraduate and graduate programs [2]. Recent college graduates are forced to enroll in numerous certification programs in order to develop critical industry useful hands-on skills that are not taught in college [1]. What is needed today is a comprehensive training environment with extensible configurations for deeper learning and adaptive teaching. This will enable students to gain firsthand experience with the tools for the attack and defense of systems. We present the results from an Action Research project focused on improving cybersecurity training by introducing elements of gamification and a cyber range.

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  1. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA

    Demitrius Fenton, Guy Hokanson & Jeremy Straub

  2. United States Marine Corps, Fargo, ND, USA

    Terry Traylor

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  2. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki, Greece

    Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos

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Fenton, D., Traylor, T., Hokanson, G., Straub, J. (2019). Integrating Cyber Range Technologies and Certification Programs to Improve Cybersecurity Training Programs. In: Auer, M., Tsiatsos, T. (eds) The Challenges of the Digital Transformation in Education. ICL 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 917. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11935-5_60

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