Cyber Taxi: A Taxonomy of Interactive Cyber Training and Education Systems
This provides a structured framework for cybersecurity educators and event organizers to enhance training effectiveness, though it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts like Capture the Flag events.
The authors addressed the lack of guided practical exercises in cybersecurity training by developing a taxonomy for interactive cyber training and education systems, which includes factors like technical setup and audience to help improve and establish successful training programs.
The lack of guided exercises and practical opportunities to learn about cybersecurity in a practical way makes it difficult for security experts to improve their proficiency. Capture the Flag events and Cyber Ranges are ideal for cybersecurity training. Thereby, the participants usually compete in teams against each other, or have to defend themselves in a specific scenario. As organizers of yearly events, we present a taxonomy for interactive cyber training and education. The proposed taxonomy includes different factors of the technical setup, audience, training environment, and training setup. By the comprehensive taxonomy, different aspects of interactive training are considered. This can help trainings to improve and to be established successfully. The provided taxonomy is extendable and can be used in further application areas as research on new security technologies.