"Play a Video Game, Learn Cybersecurity Skills"

A team at Carnegie Mellon University welcomes anyone interested in exploring the world of cybersecurity to play a video game named "Katalyst," which introduces players to command line operations, password hashing, and the Python programming language commonly used by cybersecurity professionals. Katalyst is the result of a project in which students were tasked with developing a video game that houses a collection of cybersecurity challenges. The game will be featured at picoCTF, an annual cybersecurity competition run by Carnegie Mellon's CyLab Security and Privacy Institute geared towards middle and high school students. This article continues to discuss the goals, development, and design of the Katalyst cybersecurity video game, as well as the aim of CMU's picoCTF.

CyLab reports "Play a Video Game, Learn Cybersecurity Skills"