Challenge Development Guidelines for Cybersecurity Competitions

Abstract

Cybersecurity competitions provide a way for participants to learn and develop hands-on technical skills, and they serve to identify and reward talented cybersecurity practitioners. They also form part of a larger, multifaceted effort for ensuring the nation has a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce to secure its critical infrastructure systems and to defend against cyber attacks. To help support these efforts of cultivating the skills of cybersecurity practitioners and of building a workforce to safeguard the nation, this paper draws on the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) experience developing cybersecurity challenges for the President's Cup Cybersecurity Competition and provides general-purpose guidelines and best practices for developing effective cybersecurity challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 27, 2021
Accession Number
AD1183597

Entities

People

  • Dennis Allen
  • Jarrett Booz
  • Joseph Vessella
  • Josh Hammerstein
  • Leena Arora
  • Matt Kaar

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Best Practices
  • Competition
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Intellectual Property
  • Operating Systems
  • Security
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Economics
  • Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber