Developing Cyber-risk Centric Courses and Training Material for Cyber Ranges: A Systematic Approach

Gencer Erdogan, Antonio Romero, Niccolò Zazzeri, Anže Žitnik, Mariano Basile, Giorgio Aprile, Mafalda Osório, Claudia Pani, Ioannis Kechaoglou

2021

Abstract

The use of cyber ranges to train and develop cybersecurity skills and awareness is attracting more attention, both in public and private organizations. However, cyber ranges typically focus mainly on hands-on exercises and do not consider aspects such as courses, learning goals and learning objectives, specific skills to train and develop, etc. We address this gap by proposing a method for developing courses and training material based on identified roles and skills to be trained in cyber ranges. Our method has been used by people with different background grouped in academia, critical infrastructure, research, and service providers who have developed 22 courses including hands-on exercises. The developed courses have been tried out in pilot studies by SMEs. Our assessment shows that the method is feasible and that it considers learning and educational aspects by facilitating the development of courses and training material for specific cybersecurity roles and skills.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Erdogan G., Romero A., Zazzeri N., Žitnik A., Basile M., Aprile G., Osório M., Pani C. and Kechaoglou I. (2021). Developing Cyber-risk Centric Courses and Training Material for Cyber Ranges: A Systematic Approach.In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-491-6, pages 702-713. DOI: 10.5220/0010393107020713

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp21,
author={Gencer Erdogan and Antonio Romero and Niccolò Zazzeri and Anže Žitnik and Mariano Basile and Giorgio Aprile and Mafalda Osório and Claudia Pani and Ioannis Kechaoglou},
title={Developing Cyber-risk Centric Courses and Training Material for Cyber Ranges: A Systematic Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2021},
pages={702-713},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010393107020713},
isbn={978-989-758-491-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Developing Cyber-risk Centric Courses and Training Material for Cyber Ranges: A Systematic Approach
SN - 978-989-758-491-6
AU - Erdogan G.
AU - Romero A.
AU - Zazzeri N.
AU - Žitnik A.
AU - Basile M.
AU - Aprile G.
AU - Osório M.
AU - Pani C.
AU - Kechaoglou I.
PY - 2021
SP - 702
EP - 713
DO - 10.5220/0010393107020713