CyberQuest: An Interactive Web-Based Cybersecurity Platform
Sven Grübel, Daniele Lain, Dennis Komm · 2025
We introduce a learning platform to teach cybersecurity topics in an interactive way to a K--12 audience. The platform targets cybersecurity novices and is entirely browser-based, making using it in class as simple as possible. It consists of two main components: a lesson center and a small mock social media network. The lesson center introduces students to basic concepts such as HTTP status codes and cookies, and asks them to carry out simple tasks within the social media network. Furthermore, students can look behind the curtains to see what kind of data is generated through interactions with the network. The ultimate goal is to ''hack'' into the social media network and impersonate a different user.