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Hands-on labs are a critical component of any cybersecurity program. Schools can develop labs internally, outsource labs to a provider, or utilize free grant resourced labs, or use free and open source labs.  Many externally provided labs aren’t mapped to CAE Knowledge Units or the NICE Framework, especially the open source labs. This makes it challenging for schools to identify the right labs for their program and requires extensive efforts to map the labs to meet these different requirements. There is duplicated effort as different institutions map the same labs and in many cases will map them to the same knowledge units and NICE KSA’s. This presentation will discuss National University’s efforts to map labs from external providers and open source labs to knowledge units and to the NICE Framework.  A proof of concept portal that will allow schools to share their mappings will be demonstrated.

Chris Simpson