Empowering Future Cybersecurity Leaders: Advancing Students through FINDS Education for Digital Forensic Excellence
Yashas Hariprasad, Subhash Gurappa, Sundararaj S. Iyengar, Jerry F. Miller, Pronab Mohanty, Naveen Kumar Chaudhary

TL;DR
This paper presents a comprehensive educational framework and a novel skill modeling graph to enhance digital forensic training, leveraging AI, machine learning, and experiential learning to improve cybersecurity workforce development.
Contribution
It introduces the Multidependency Capacity Building Skills Graph (MCBSG), a new hierarchical model for structuring and assessing cybersecurity skill acquisition and capacity.
Findings
Significant improvements in forensic programming accuracy.
Enhanced adversarial reasoning skills.
Validated the scalability and interpretability of MCBSG.
Abstract
The Forensics Investigations Network in Digital Sciences (FINDS) Research Center of Excellence (CoE), funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, advances Digital Forensic Engineering Education (DFEE) through an integrated research education framework for AI enabled cybersecurity workforce development. FINDS combines high performance computing (HPC), secure software engineering, adversarial analytics, and experiential learning to address emerging cyber and synthetic media threats. This paper introduces the Multidependency Capacity Building Skills Graph (MCBSG), a directed acyclic graph based model that encodes hierarchical and cross domain dependencies among competencies in AI-driven forensic programming, statistical inference, digital evidence processing, and threat detection. The MCBSG enables structured modeling of skill acquisition pathways and quantitative capacity assessment.…
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Taxonomy
TopicsInformation and Cyber Security · Digital and Cyber Forensics · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
