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Cyber security is a big challenge nowadays. However, the lack of qualified individuals and awareness is making the current situation more problematic. One way to address this problem is through National cyber security competitions. Such competitions provide large-scale awareness of cyber security issues and motivate individuals to join the cyber security workforce. ENISA (European Network and Information Security Argent) motivated European countries to organize national-level cyber security competitions in early 2014, similar to national-level football competitions. After that, ENISA organized a European-level competition similar to UEFA football league in which multiple countries participated with their national teams. This cyber security competition is known as a ECSC (European Cyber Security Challenge). Individuals aged between 14–25 participate and try to solve different cyber security challenges related to web, forensics, crypto, OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), and reversing. To select individuals and to teach those skills, different countries apply different strategies. In this study, we focus on how different countries select cyber talent and train them for national competitions and how they impact their overall cyber security ecosystem to produce skilled individuals for a cyber security workforce.
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What is the selection process for the national team?
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Do you have a qualifying round?
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How many qualifying rounds is an individual required to participate in to be a part of national team?
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What technical traits/skills did you look for with regards to individual selection?
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What personality traits did you look for with regards to individual selection?
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What team related skills did you look with regards to the individual team member?
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How did you train the selected team for the ECSC competition?
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What do you think can be improved in selection and training process?
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Do you have hacking and CTF clubs in your country?
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How did you manage the COVID-19 pandemic during team selection and training?
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Yamin, M.M., Erdodi, L., Torseth, E., Katt, B. (2022). Selecting and Training Young Cyber Talent: A Recurrent European Cyber Security Challenge Case Study. In: Schmorrow, D.D., Fidopiastis, C.M. (eds) Augmented Cognition. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13310. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05457-0_24
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