Cyber Workforce Development
Blog Posts
Designing Great Challenges for Cybersecurity Competitions
This blog post highlights the SEI’s experience developing cybersecurity challenges for the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition and general-purpose guidelines and best practices for developing effective challenges.
• By Jarrett Booz, Josh Hammerstein, Matt Kaar
In Cyber Workforce Development
The Benefits of Cyber Assessment Training
This post discusses how cybersecurity assessments can help critical infrastructure organizations improve their cybersecurity with help from free assessment tools developed by the SEI and offered by the U.S. government.
• By Rhonda Brown, Alexander Petrilli
In Cybersecurity Engineering
Using Machine Learning to Increase the Fidelity of Non-Player Characters in Training Simulations
Use of machine-learning (ML) modeling and a suite of software tools to create decision-making preferences that make non-player characters (NPCs) more realistic in simulations.
• By Dustin D. Updyke, Thomas G. Podnar, Geoffrey B. Dobson, John Yarger
In Cyber Workforce Development
Generating Realistic Non-Player Characters for Training Cyberteams
This SEI Blog post describes efforts underway to improve the realism of non-player characters (NPCs) in training exercises with new software called ANIMATOR.
• By Dustin D. Updyke, Tyler Brooks
In Cyber Workforce Development
Six Free Tools for Creating a Cyber Simulator
It can be hard for developers of cybersecurity training to create realistic simulations and training exercises when trainees are operating in closed (often classified) environments with no ability to connect …
• By Joseph Mayes
In Cyber Workforce Development
Structuring the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Organization
Most organizations, no matter the size or operational environment (government or industry), employ a senior leader responsible for information security and cybersecurity....
• By Nader Mehravari, Julia H. Allen
In Cyber Workforce Development
