CyBOK-related resources for educators and trainers, developed through funded projects

Following community calls in December 2020, August 2021 and June 2022 for funded small projects to develop CyBOK resources, several projects were funded. Project outputs (where available) can be found below.

Project title Resources Lead and Organisation
A ready-to-deploy online course shell in Common Cartridge format to teach CyBOK concepts and Survey on CyBOK Usage in the Classroom CyBOK Online course shell (700MB, imscc format)
Course shell supporting documents (zip)
Report on CyBOK usage in the classroom
Nancy Mead
SEI Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (ret.)
Bastian Tenbergen
State University of New York at Oswego
Assessing the cross-disciplinary accessibility of CyBOK Executive Summary - Assessing the cross-disciplinary accessibility of CyBOK
Report - Assessing the cross-disciplinary accessibility of CyBOK
Furnell, S., Carpent, X., Martin, A. (2024). Assessing the Cross-Disciplinary Accessibility of CyBOK. In: Drevin, L., Leung, W.S., von Solms, S. (eds) Information Security Education - Challenges in the Digital Age. WISE 2024. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 707. Springer, Cham.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62918-1_11
World Conference on Information Security Education Co-located with IFIP SEC 2024, 12-14 June 2024, Edinburgh, UK.
Xavier Carpent
University of Nottingham
Case Studies in support of CyBOK and report on classroom usage Overview of CyBOK Case Studies (updated April 2022)
CyBOK Case Study Library (updated April 2022)
Report on classroom usage
Nancy Mead
SEI Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University (ret.)
CyBOK Wiki - feasibility study CyBOK Wiki - Feasibility Study Final Report Lőrinc Thurnay
University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria
Developing and testing a memory analysis workshop Workshop: memory analysis for digital forensics and malware analysis Joakim Kävrestad
University of Skövde, Sweden
Develop pedagogical practices to support active and engaging practices in Forensics Education Forensics KA Active lesson plans Joseph Maguire
University of Glasgow
Developing redistributable practical materials for Formal Methods in Security Practical materials for Formal Methods in Security Martin Lester
University of Reading
Development of redistributable laboratory materials for GSM Laboratory materials for GSM Denis Nicole
University of Southampton
Development of redistributable laboratory materials for wireless remote control Laboratory materials for wireless remote control Denis Nicole
University of Southampton
Development of redistributable laboratories for Hardware Security Denis Nicole
University of Southampton, UK
Development of materials for AI for Security AI for Cyber Security Active Learning Hossein Abroshan
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Enhancing security architecture frameworks to accommodate the CyBOK v1.0 KAs for practitioners Enhancing Security Architecture Framework Practice using the CyBOK v1.0 Knowledge Areas for Practitioners
Keywords Mapping Graphs and Charts (xls)
Duncan Greaves
Coventry University
First-cycle university course based on CyBOK Joakim Kävrestad
Jönköping University, Sweden
Five transport safety MSc courses: A teachability feasibility study Emma Taylor
Cranfield University,
Learning together – Cybersecurity for toddlers Learning together – Cybersecurity for Toddlers
Learning together – Cryptography for Toddlers
Elizabeth Quaglia
Royal Holloway, University of London
Mapping of cybersecurity games onto CyBOK Mapping of cybersecurity games onto CyBOK report
Mapping of cybersecurity games onto CyBOK datapack (zip)
Joseph Hallett
University of Bristol
Open source CyBOK practical challenges and learning resources (Updated September 2024) Complete index of labs mapped to CyBOK
Complete index of lectures mapped to CyBOK
Complete index of CTF scenarios mapped to CyBOK
Cliffe Schreuders
Leeds Beckett University
Providing an online platform for hierarchical knowledge presentation, visualisation and mapping CyBOK v1.0 online - a platform for hierarchical knowledge presentation, visualisation and mapping Eckhard Pfluegel
Kingston University
Published PhD theses mapped to CyBOK 1.0 Mapping PhD Theses of UK Universities to CyBOK v1.0 - summary report Virginia Franqueira
University of Kent
Re-visualizing CyBOK: next phase imagery Visual Guidelines for CyBOK projects Miriam Sturdee
Lancaster University / Kingston University
Secure Coding Game-based Lab Citadel Programming Lab
CyBOK v1.1 Linkage for a Secure Coding Game-Based Lab - report
Aligning a Serious Game, Secure Programming and CyBOK-Linked Learning Outcomes
L. McGregor, S. C. Chan, S. Wlodarczyk, and M. Maarek, ‘Aligning a Serious Game, Secure Programming and CyBOK-Linked Learning Outcomes’, in 2022 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Jun. 2022, pp. 486–495. https://doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW55150.2022.00058.
1st European Workshop on Cyber Security Education and Practice 2022 Co-located with IEEE Euro S&P 2022, Genoa, Italy.
Manuel Maarek
Heriot-Watt University
Teaching CyBOK Cyber Physical Systems Security through interactive simulation Cyber Physical Systems Security project website with links to tutorials Phil Legg
University of the West of England
Towards a Responsible Cyber Security Profession Practical Cybersecurity Ethics: Mapping CyBOK to Ethical Concerns

Ivan Flechais and George Chalhoub. 2023. Practical Cybersecurity Ethics: Mapping CyBOK to Ethical Concerns. In Proceedings of the 2023 New Security Paradigms Workshop (September 2023), 62–75. https://doi.org/10.1145/3633500.3633505

Ivan Flechais
University of Oxford
Visualising CyBOK References CyBOK v1.1 References Mitch Harle
Uncommon Correlation
Widening CyBOK: A Mapping of Strategic & Defence Cyber Research against the Knowledge Area Basil Germond
Lancaster University