This paper proposes a novel approach for the evaluation of the performance achieved by trainees involved in cyber security exercises implemented in modern cyber ranges. Our main contributions include: the definition of a distributed monitoring architecture for gathering relevant information about trainees activities; an algorithm for modeling the trainee activities using directed graphs; novel scoring algorithms, based on graph operations, that evaluate different aspects (speed, precision) of a trainee during an exercise. With respect to previous work, our proposal allows to measure exactly how fast a user is progressing towards an objective and where he does wrong. We highlight that this is currently not possible in the most popular cyber ranges.

A Framework for the Evaluation of Trainee Performance in Cyber Range Exercises / Andreolini, M.; Colacino, V. G.; Colajanni, M.; Marchetti, M.. - In: MOBILE NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 1383-469X. - 25:1(2020), pp. 236-247. [10.1007/s11036-019-01442-0]

A Framework for the Evaluation of Trainee Performance in Cyber Range Exercises

Andreolini M.;Colacino V. G.;Colajanni M.;Marchetti M.
2020

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This paper proposes a novel approach for the evaluation of the performance achieved by trainees involved in cyber security exercises implemented in modern cyber ranges. Our main contributions include: the definition of a distributed monitoring architecture for gathering relevant information about trainees activities; an algorithm for modeling the trainee activities using directed graphs; novel scoring algorithms, based on graph operations, that evaluate different aspects (speed, precision) of a trainee during an exercise. With respect to previous work, our proposal allows to measure exactly how fast a user is progressing towards an objective and where he does wrong. We highlight that this is currently not possible in the most popular cyber ranges.
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A Framework for the Evaluation of Trainee Performance in Cyber Range Exercises / Andreolini, M.; Colacino, V. G.; Colajanni, M.; Marchetti, M.. - In: MOBILE NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS. - ISSN 1383-469X. - 25:1(2020), pp. 236-247. [10.1007/s11036-019-01442-0]
Andreolini, M.; Colacino, V. G.; Colajanni, M.; Marchetti, M.
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