CAC Training - A Unified Cybersecurity Training Program for Military Staff

Cyber war can begin at anytime, anywhere in the globe, and it is more frequent than most of us can imagine. This new form of warfare is ravaging not only the military and the armed forces, but it's also penetrating almost every sphere of our existence. As cybersecurity has become recognised only recently as a fundamental component of the military, the military community itself heavily relies on the private sector to support its cyber mission assurance. Such reliance may well elevate the possibility of declining or collapsing a mission due to the military's usually secretive nature. To address this problem, the military has tried to develop the architecture of committed cybersecurity training for internalizing the cybersecurity training. However, as the present and future workplace environments cannot be secure solely by great hardware and software, current training systems for cybersecurity often do not have strong backup for ideal and efficient cybersecurity education, in this work, we introduce ICSTASY that is an interactive, scenario-based, and immersive cybersecurity training that enables the incorporation of a comprehensive set of training attributes. From the analysis of literature, we extracted the fundamental specifications and guidelines pertinent to the deficiencies unveiled while establishing a cyber-training system. By walking through our developed Proof of Concept we have shown that repetitive, precise and realistic cyber training is indeed possible in both the military domain and any business.