Cybersecurity Competitive Labs-as-a-Service: Automated Score and Message Board Design

here has been extensive research and analysis of the effectiveness of game-based education tools, however there is limited literature on the designs of such tools. The Automation of collecting scoring metrics within virtualized cyber-attack and defense games can be a complicated task. It required robust, accurate, and fast technology. A means of keeping the integrity of the score must also be in place. In this presentation we presented a novel design of an Automated Scoring and Message Board (ASMB) system, which was a five-step methodology that was used in a Competitive Labs-as-a-Service (CLaaS) platform.