Enhancing Cybersecurity Skills by Creating Serious Games

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14610%2F18%3A00106886" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14610/18:00106886 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3197091.3197123" target="_blank" >https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3197091.3197123</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3197091.3197123" target="_blank" >10.1145/3197091.3197123</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Enhancing Cybersecurity Skills by Creating Serious Games

Original language description

Adversary thinking is an essential skill for cybersecurity experts, enabling them to understand cyber attacks and set up effective defenses. While this skill is commonly exercised by Capture the Flag games and hands-on activities, we complement these approaches with a key innovation: undergraduate students learn methods of network attack and defense by creating educational games in a cyber range. In this paper, we present the design of two courses, instruction and assessment techniques, as well as our observations over the last three semesters. The students report they had a unique opportunity to deeply understand the topic and practice their soft skills, as they presented their results at a faculty open day event. Their peers, who played the created games, rated the quality and educational value of the games overwhelmingly positively. Moreover, the open day raised awareness about cybersecurity and research and development in this field at our faculty. We believe that sharing our teaching experience will be valuable for instructors planning to introduce active learning of cybersecurity and adversary thinking.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/VI20162019014" target="_blank" >VI20162019014: Simulation, detection, and mitigation of cyber threats endangering critical infrastructure</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE'18)

ISBN

9781450357074

ISSN

1942-647X

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

194-199

Publisher name

ACM

Place of publication

Larnaca, Cyprus

Event location

Larnaca, Cyprus

Event date

Jul 2, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000543991900037