Cybersecurity Education & Training Delivery II

Use competitions to create engaging, real-world cybersecurity training scenarios.

Key Details

This module is delivered in hybrid format, as a combination of online, in-person and self-learning activities. The module uses innovative hybrid learning methods that combine live (synchronous) and self-paced (asynchronous) activities, with particular focus on practical activities and real-world scenarios connected to cybersecurity. Expert tutors guide students through the material, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

The module aims to build the required skills for students to be creators of practical cybsersecurity contests and use competition-based learning in their educator role. Toward this goal, the module employs in-class participation and assignments.

Time commitment:

• Online activities: 14 hours
• In-person activities: 14 hours
• Self-learning: 28 hours
• Individual, team and guided projects and activities: 69 hours
• Total: 125 hours

Credit points: 5 ECTS

Grading:

• In-class Activity: 10%
• Assignments: 40%
• Exam: 50%

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Subjects covered

Overview of cybersecurity practice activities: wargames, CTF contests & challenges, vulnerable boxes

Pedagogical Considerations Related to Practical Activities

Cybersecurity Practice Arsenal

CTF Cybersecurity Challenges

Deployment of CTF Challenges

CTF Engines – CTFd.io

Pedagogical Aspects of Contests and Competitions

Organizing and Deploying a CTF Contest

Using Virtual Machines

Designing a Vulnerable Box Challenge

Deploying Vulnerable Boxes

Assessment of Results of Cybersecurity Practice Activities

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Learning objectives

Recognize common patterns in cybersecurity attack and defense activities that can be replicated and integrated in cybersecurity exercises

Develop, employ and asses practical cybersecurity exercises, both as single-topic challenges and as vulnerable boxes that feature a complex interconnected topics closer to a real-world setup

Combine patterns from existing cybersecurity exercises intor new customized deployments

Assess student practical cybsersecurity knowledge and skills and revise exercises according to their current level

Design and set up cyber range-environments and CTF (Capture the Flag)-like contests, including setting up the platform, selecting challenges, grading, providing support

Summarize and interpret results and feedback of practice activities

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Module leaders

Răzvan is an Associate Professor at POLITEHNICA Bucharest, the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He is primarily interested in operating systems and security, with a penchant for teaching and mentoring.

Răzvan is leading community activities in POLITEHNICA, centered around cybersecurity and open source. He has led the Security Summer School, a yearly 5-week summer school that has been running for 12 years and has generated over 500 graduates in cybersecurity. He is involved in mentoring students in cybersecurity topics and organizing and supporting local and national CTF contents. On the open source side, Răzvan is lead the ROSEdu (Romanian Open Source Education) association, organizing extracurricular classes and projects dealing with open source and by supporting students to take part in Google Summer of Code.

Răzvan’s research focus is on systems and software security, particularly Apple iOS security, cyber-reasoning systems and the Unikraft unikernel in recent years.

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