| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
