Title: Growing Security Talent with Cyber Ranges

Synopsis: In order to address the widening security skills gap, organizations are beginning to investigate non traditional methods for identifying, training, improving and retaining talent. Among the methods being adopted are more immersive experiences that focus on teaching team members how to think and act like an attacker. This approach supplements the traditional engineering "find the bug, fix the bug" focus and enables a much wider pool of talent to become aware, educated and improved. The talk will provide an introduction to simulation environments like Cyber Ranges, differentiate them from gamification systems, and discuss the emerging delivery, adoption and organizational lessons learned that are driving further adoption. Additionally, the Cyber Range will be available to anyone with a laptop who wants to show off or polish up their hacking skills at the end of the session!