A Review of Using Gaming Technology for Cyber-Security Awareness

Alotaibi, Fayez; Furnell, Steven; Stengel, Ingo; Papadaki, Maria

doi:10.20533/ijisr.2042.4639.2016.0076

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“…Some authors investigate gaming technologies to raise awareness broadly in cyber security. Alotaibi et al [10] review gaming applications and their efficiency to educate on cybersecurity. Tioh et al [9] review serious games approaches applied in cyber security.…”

Section: Gaming For Cybersecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A new interesting potential in the 21st century to build such learning tools is called gamification [9]. It provides an immediate end-user's behavior change [10]. Gamification is an interactive mood for education on specific topic, engaging and keeping learner focuses on activities with fun, compared to the traditional methods like instructor-based, or email based message methods.…”

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A Review of Gamification Applied to Phishing

Tchakounté¹,

L²,

Atemkeng³

2020

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Phishing is a set of devastating techniques which lure target users to provide critical resources. They are successful because they rely on human weaknesses. Gamification which is a recent and non-traditional learning method with purpose to motivate and engage user to carry out activities, is more and more applied to prevent such cyber threats. This paper provides the first survey of gamified solutions dedicated to educate against phishing from 2007 to 2019. The investigation is conducted on eight proposals in terms of core concepts, game mechanics and learning process. We provide three taxonomies of dimensions to systematically characterize researches on gamified solutions, discuss lacks of surveyed works and opens further orientations to enhance this research area. Some key results are: solutions do not consider elementary level of knowledge and do no offer basic notions; solutions are not adapted to general audience and therefore not reliably applicable in different contexts; platforms partially educate about phishing; learners are evaluated predictably and within a short period. This study constitutes a cornerstone to understand and enhance research on phishing education.

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Section: Gaming For Cybersecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Gamification Applied to Phishing

Tchakounté¹,

L²,

Atemkeng³

2020

Preprint

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“…Even if 3D representations are useful in some cases highlighted by Cliquet et al [3], we have not seen much 3D visualizations for cybersecurity, apart from the 2012 Daedalus-viz project developed by Inoue et al [6]. Moreover, even if operator training is an important topic in cybersecurity, only few systems propose virtual environment for training, serious game-based scenarios and expert data analytics tools [1,10]. This is why we are currently working on an immersive collaborative system for cybersecurity called 3D CyberCOP: we propose a 3DCVE that can be fitted for collaborative cybersecurity investigations and reporting practices [7] (Figure 1).…”

Section: Collaborative Virtual Environments For Cybersecuritymentioning

confidence: 85%

3D CyberCOP: A Collaborative Platform for Cybersecurity Data Analysis and Training

Kabil

Duval

Cuppens

et al. 2018

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Although Immersive Analytics solutions are now developed in order to ease data analysis, cyber security systems are still using classical graphical representations and are not harnessing yet the potential of virtual reality systems and collaborative virtual environments. 3D Collaborative Virtual Environments (3DCVE) can be used in order to merge learning and data analysis approaches, as they can allow users to have a better understanding of a cyber situation by mediating interactions towards them and also by providing different points of view of the same data, on different scales. So we propose a 3D Cyber Common Operational Picture (3D CyberCOP) that will allow operators to face together a situation by using immersive and non immersive visualizations and by collaborating through user-defined roles. After visiting French Security Operations Centers (SOCs), we have defined a collaborative interaction model and some use-cases, to assess of the effectiveness of our solution.

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“…Another interesting aspect of CVEs is that they are considered useful for learning [10,33], and they could be used to enhance existing cyber training tools which are still very technical or based on serious-gaming approaches [3,30].…”

Section: Virtual Environments For Cyber Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

From Cyber Security Activities to Collaborative Virtual Environments Practices Through the 3D CyberCOP Platform

Kabil

Duval

Cuppens

et al. 2018

Information Systems Security

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Although collaborative practices between cyber organizations are well documented, managing activities within these organizations is still challenging as cyber operators tasks are very demanding and usually done individually. As human factors studies in cyber environments are still difficult to perform, tools and collaborative practices are evolving slowly and training is always required to increase teamwork efficiency. Contrary to other research fields, cyber security is not harnessing yet the capabilities of Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE) which can be used both for immersive and interactive data visualization and serious gaming for training. In order to tackle cyber security teamwork issues, we propose a 3D CVE called the 3D Cyber Common Operational Picture, which aims at taking advantage of CVE practices to enhance cyber collaborative activities. Based on four Security Operations Centers (SOCs) visits we have made in different organizations, we have designed a cyber collaborative activity model which has been used as a reference to design our 3D CyberCOP platform features, such as asymetrical collaboration, mutual awareness and roles specialization. Our approach can be adapted to several use cases, and we are currently developing a cyber incident analysis scenario based on an event-driven architecture, as a proof of concept.

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A Review of Using Gaming Technology for Cyber-Security Awareness

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A Review of Gamification Applied to Phishing

A Review of Gamification Applied to Phishing

3D CyberCOP: A Collaborative Platform for Cybersecurity Data Analysis and Training

From Cyber Security Activities to Collaborative Virtual Environments Practices Through the 3D CyberCOP Platform

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