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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.

  • 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.

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