XP Cyber
The Cyber Workforce Experience Before the Workforce
We deliver students and educators across the United States real-world cybersecurity workforce challenges to enable the next generation cyber workforce. Our battle-tested cyber range and challenges immerse students in complex virtual environments and business scenarios where they complete tasks as in-demand cyber work roles.
An Academic Cyber Range With a Workforce Mission
The XP Cyber Range is an academic cyber range that enables US-based educators to teach and assess their students' cyber skills and workforce readiness for free and year-round. Through the range, educators can infuse our vast catalog of expert-designed cyber workforce challenges into their classes and clubs to give their students the cyber workforce experience before the workforce.
Common Academic Use Cases
Capstone Experiences
Cyber work role based experiences for students approaching graduation to determine if they are ready for the workforce.
Challenge Labs
Next-level labs for upper-division course work, extra credit, and all-star students.
Competition Preparation
Exercises for student teams and individual students preparing for cybersecurity competitions.
Free Play
Our wide and diverse selection of cyber work role based experiences enables students see what work roles suit them.
Instructional Aid
A visual and functional aid in class for showing students real-world issues and the different ways to handle them.
Assess Competency & Ensure Workforce Readiness
The XP Cyber Range uses a holistic approach when gathering data for educators to use to assess competency, including automated objective scoring, environment health tracking, and collecting student documentation. By combining hard and soft skill data, educators can confidently determine if a student can competently complete core tasks of in-demand cyber work roles and is ready to enter the cyber workforce.
Realistic Narrative Driven Scenarios
Our challenges start with a real world scenario delivered through a text chat meeting, during which fictional employees will provide critical details and context needed to complete the challenge.
Technical & Soft
Skills Required
To complete our challenges, students will need to utilize their cyber skills and knowledge to identify critical details in the meeting chat, complete complex technical objectives, and clearly document their methods.
No Costly Fees or Complex Installations
The barriers to entry into the cyber workforce are already steep. We are committed to keeping ours low to enable educators to bring more students the experiences they need to be ready to join the US cyber workforce.
Full-Scale Business Environments
Each of our challenges take place in a fictional business environment that includes a cast of employees and a set of servers, services, workstations, and networks that represent part of their enterprise IT network.
EDU Ready Range Feature Set
On the XP Cyber Range, educators can review our challenge catalog, try challenges, onboard students, create and manage assignments, review challenge submissions, and download reports.
Knowledgeable Support at the Ready
On XP Cyber Support Portal, educators can find quick answers to frequently asked questions and consult expert support staff to assist with finding challenges to integrate into classes and other complex issues.
Inspired By & Mapped to Major Workforce & EDU Cybersecurity Standards
We map our catalog of cyber workforce challenges to three major cybersecurity standards: the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF), the NICE Framework (NIST SP 800-181), and the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity Knowledge Units (NCAE-C KU).
+150
Unique Cyber Workforce Challenges
+25
Workforce Framework
Work Roles
+500
Workforce Framework
TKS Statements
+45
NCAE-C Knowledge
Units
Empowering Educational Institutions to Deliver the Next Generation of the US Cyber Workforce
750+
EDU Institutions Served
1.5K+
Educator Sign Ups
30K+
Students Impacted
1M+
Hours Spent in Challenges
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