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Cybersecurity Scenario Builder and Retrieval Toolkit
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Cybersecurity Scenario Builder and Retrieval Toolkit

Guillermo Francia III, Tirthankar Ghosh, Gregory Hall and Eman El-Sheikh
Innovations in Cybersecurity Education, pp.285-301
Springer International Publishing
11/2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50244-7_14

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Abstract

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 problems of cybersecurity. A major component of cybersecurity, or any technical program, is effective training that could alleviate, if not eliminate, the threat imposed by the adversarial entities. Training programs are guided by learning processes that could utilize passive and active learning strategies. While passive learning incorporates rote learning, active learning places more responsibility to students by engaging them in problem-based or case-based learning processes. The student is presented with interactive scenarios which facilitate the progression of the student toward a solution to the problem. In following the storyline, the students apply their acquired domain knowledge and critical thinking skills while receiving constructive feedback based on the decisions that they have made (Massey University of New Zealand, 2020). Recognizing these needs, we initiated an innovative cybersecurity training and education project with the following objectives: to design, develop, test, and deploy a highly interactive, automated, and intelligent cybersecurity scenario builder and retrieval software toolkit for active cybersecurity learning; to build a virtual machine (VM) that will accompany each scenario; and to facilitate the deployment of the scenarios on a cyber range. Each scenario will be created using our novel concept: Open Virtualization Scenario.

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