Cybersecurity Capability Building
Designing competition-based cybersecurity education for K-12, and studying enterprise readiness for emerging threats.
Students competing in a capture-the-flag cybersecurity exercise
Overview
Strong security research means little without a pipeline of people ready to apply it. This project line looks at how cybersecurity capability actually gets built — from designing frameworks that bring capture-the-flag style competitions into K-12 classrooms, to studying how ready organisations are for emerging threats like the quantum-safe transition.
Related publications
- Beyond the Flag: A Framework for Integrating Cybersecurity Competitions into K-12 Education for Cognitive Apprenticeship and Ethical Skill Development — arXiv preprint, 2026
- Are Enterprises Ready for Quantum-Safe Cybersecurity? — arXiv preprint, 2025
Status
Active. “Beyond the Flag” proposes a concrete framework for schools; the enterprise-readiness study informs what capability gaps that pipeline should eventually close.