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Cybersecurity Skills Competitions Community of Interest (2019-2024)
Discontinued Notice:
This Community of Interest has been discontinued. However, we encourage you to explore and participate in other groups within the NICE Community Coordinating Council, where you can continue engaging with like-minded individuals and contributing to meaningful discussions that energize, promote, and coordinate a robust community working together to advance an integrated ecosystem of cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development. This page is provided for historical purposes.
The NICE Program Office thanks these group members for their commitment and involvement in this community of interest.
Focus:
This Community of Interest is a forum for anyone who is interested in sharing and learning how to empower a public and private competition ecosystem by promoting a wide spectrum of competitions and effective practices for players, teams, schools, sponsors, organizers, and others that advances cybersecurity knowledge, skills, and competencies to grow and sustain a qualified national talent pool.
Former Chair:
Jake Mihevc
Dean of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
Mohawk Valley Community College
Completed Projects:
List of Competitions - This is intended to be a dynamic listing of cybersecurity and cybersecurity-related competitions.
The Cyber Range: A Guide
This document intends to provide guidance on the use cases, features, and types of cyber ranges in cybersecurity education, certification, and training.
Project Deliverable: The Cyber Range: A Guide (September 2023)
How to Build and Run a Competition
This is intended to be a basic guidebook on how to create your own competition. It is a living, breathing document that can be updated as things change. Version one will serve as a starting point. View the full project charter here.
Project Deliverable: So You Want to Build a Cybersecurity Competition: 12 Things to Consider Before Getting Started (September 2023)
Guide for Competitors
The purpose of the guide is to provide information about the types of cyber competitions, recommended tools and training, and how to get started. The intended audience for the Guide is both current competitors and also those interested in competing. View the full project charter here.
Project Deliverable: Guide to Cybersecurity Competitions for Competitors (September 2023)
Accomplishments:
- Presentation at the 2018 NICE Conference and Expo, "Play Your Way to Success: Building Tomorrow's Workforce"
Competitions one-pager
- Development of the Role that Cybersecurity Games Play in Developing Tomorrow's Workforce – white paper
- Competitions research survey
- Ten Things Parents Need to Know About Competitions letter
- Ten Things to Know About Cybersecurity Competitions infographic
- Cybersecurity Competitions List
- The Value of Cybersecurity Competitions panel (see recording)
Active Programs
- Recent Competition Podcasts on the YouTube CyberFed channel:
- Bill Doherty, Computer Science Instructor, University of Nevada, Reno - July 23, 2020
- Mari Galloway, CEO, Women's Society of Cyberjutsu - July 20, 2020
- Lisa Oyler, Teacher, Summit Technology Academy - July 11, 2020
- Brad Wolfenden, EmberSec, NICE Competitions Subgroup Co-chair - June 30, 2020
See more Competition Podcasts on the YouTube CyberFed channel
Contacts
FOR GENERAL INFORMATION
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NICE Program Office(301) 975-4470100 Bureau Dr.
Gaithersburg, MD 20899