National Cyber League challenges as a way to teach Cybersecurity

Abstract

Cybersecurity education is a relative new topic in most educational organizations today. This presents a problem to most educational institutions like universities who confront the challenge of teaching cybersecurity topics to students that doesn’t have the necessary skills and knowledge to understand these topics. Across United States and other countries different initiatives had emerged to deal with this problem [1] [2]. They range from creating all the needed resources in the university or direct the student to resources outside the university. This project is intended to attack the problem by creating labs that teach the students skills and topics in cybersecurity like the ones presented in the National Cyber League (NCL) competition and later use the NCL platform as a testing ground. The main benefit of our approach is being able to fill those skills and knowledge gaps a student can have by tailoring each lab using the NCL competition as a reference [3]. Key Terms - Capture the Flag, Cybersecurity, Education, Educational Material