Adversarial ML & AI Security · Capstone brief
SEC-11 · Cyber Range crossover
What skills in this capstone map onto a current Virginia Cyber Range offering and/or CompTIA Security+ objective list — and what gap does the capstone fill that those lists do not?
School-approved sandbox only. No production targets. Showcase materials paraphrase class behavior — do not publish payload strings.
The question
What skills in this capstone map onto a current Virginia Cyber Range offering and/or CompTIA Security+ objective list — and what gap does the capstone fill that those lists do not?
Lab / materials
Teacher names the living documents at assign time: the Virginia Cyber Range catalog/modules the school uses, and the current CompTIA Security+ exam objectives PDF. Do not freeze obsolete objective numbers in the student packet; the student copies the IDs from the documents in front of them.
Expected failure modes
Mapping everything to “threats and vulnerabilities” and calling it done. Claiming this brief is a Security+ course. Inventing Cyber Range module names.
Done looks like
A crosswalk table (capstone skill → objective/module ID → evidence artifact from this student’s work), plus a gap paragraph (what the range/cert does not ask that this capstone does — usually: model-specific failure, refusal, five C’s evidence). Honest “no map” cells allowed.
Five C's
CT: gap analysis, not logo-sticker alignment. CR: choosing artifacts that would actually convince a CTE director. CO: peer checks ID accuracy against the PDF. CM: a table for a program of studies conversation. CZ: overclaiming credit pathways hurts students.
Mentor role
Cyber CTE teacher or Cyber Range coach reviews the table at Checkpoint 2. School-supervised.
Rubric calibration
R1: named current documents. R2: IDs exist in those documents. R3: “we already cover AI” is the claim you are testing. R4: gaps are specific. R5: director-readable. R6: no verified-credit or “this replaces Security+” claim.
Two ways this goes wrong
(a) A word cloud of cert acronyms. (b) “This produces a verified credit” — it does not.
Source moved or something unclear? Send feedback on this brief. Mentors are advisory; the school supervises. These briefs do not produce verified computer-science credit.