Security through play

Author

Gondree, M. ; Peterson, Z.N.J. ; Denning, T.

Author_Institution

Naval Postgrad. Sch., Monterey, CA, USA

Volume

11

Issue

3

fYear

2013

fDate

May-June 2013

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

67

Abstract

The US Naval Postgraduate School and University of Washington each independently developed informal security-themed tabletop games. [d0x3d!] is a board game in which players collaborate as white-hat hackers, tasked to retrieve a set of valuable digital assets held by an adversarial network. Control-Alt-Hack is a card game in which three to six players act as white-hat hackers at a security consulting company. These games employ modest pedagogical objectives to expose broad audiences to computer security topics.

Keywords

computer science education; educational institutions; security of data; US naval postgraduate school; University of Washington; [d0x3d!]; adversarial network; board game; computer security topics; control-alt-hack; digital assets; informal security-themed tabletop games; security consulting company; white-hat hackers; Computer security; Games; Information management; Security; Software development; US Department of Defense; Computer security; Control-Alt-Hack; Games; Information management; Security; Software development; US Department of Defense; [d0x3d!]; board games; card games; computer security; computer security education; cybersecurity; tabletop games;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Security & Privacy, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1540-7993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MSP.2013.69

Filename

6521304