Lab Performance Evaluation via a Workshop Survey

We implemented a unique learning system, Competitive Labs-as-a-Service (CLaaS), that provided comprehensive cybersecurity awareness education. The system included multiple identical virtual learning environments. Each learner had his/her own learning environment and multiple virtual machines (VMs) were nested in each environment to serve both tasks of attack and defense. A graphic user interface (GUI) application was designed to provide access to the environment where cybersecurity activities were performed. The application menu included a set of CyberSec labs, each containing a pair of attack and defense sub-labs. Each sub-lab is a combination of both cybersecurity theory and practice. A workshop was held in the summer 2019 in the Department of Technology Systems (TSYS) at East Carolina University (ECU) in the summer of 2019. Nineteen college instructors were invited to use the system and participated in a survey in the end of the workshop. In this paper, we discussed the survey results of both the learning environment and the CyberSec labs.