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We present a novel way to help match employers’ cybersecurity skill requirements with students’ knowledge using a blockchain to assure students’ credentials and records. This approach applies micro-accreditation of topics and rigor scores to students’ courses and associated tasks, making it easier for employers to explore students’ records to verify their success in specific skills. In turn, this allows employers to make better hiring decisions, conferring a solid way for students to prove the quality of their skills. Future work includes mapping courses from CAE to NICE framework, fine-tuning transaction times, and developing a better consensus model for peer-reviewed rigor.

Zachary Zaccagni and Ram Dantu, University of North Texas