Cybersecurity Games: Building Tomorrow’s Workforce

Description

Cyber competitions are venues, both physical and online, where participants perform in closed environments to defend the assets of an Information Technology (IT) network. Like any competition, cyber competitions are both instructional and gratifying for its participants. Within the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), the Competitions subgroup (NICEWG) set an objective in early 2016 to explore the concepts, design strategies, and pursue actions that advance the role that competitions play in cybersecurity education, training, and workforce development.