Security Games

Collection of free-to-use games designed to teach various aspects of cyber security.

General applied security games:

• Data Center Attack: The Game Video by Trend Micro
  A choose-your-own adventure style game where you play the role of a CISO making decisions for a hospital. Game starts out with a worst case scenario but then moves onto very realistic situations where the main character is asked to make a sequence of decisions in realistic situations.

Firewalls and Networking

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  Permission Impossible

  Sibylle Sehl (2016-2017, Masters Thesis)

  Supervisor: Kami Vaniea

  Certain topics in Computer Security, for example firewalls, can often seem inaccessible or very difficult to beginners. This project aims to bridge this gap by providing an engaging and friendly environment for beginners to learn about firewalls. Permission Impossible teaches novices about basic firewall terminology and concepts as well as how to build a firewall rule set to enable incoming and outgoing packet traffic.

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  Firewall simulator as a WebApp

  Patrik Mjartan (2016-2017, Undergraduate Thesis)

  Supervisors: William Waites, Kami Vaniea

  A firewall is a rather straightforward entity at its core - packets trying to get through get inspected and are either let through, or denied. However, configuring and testing a firewall setup can be rather inaccessable to people like students. In particular, setting up multiple machines and VMs can be error prone and problematic for learning. In this project I sought to create a friewall simulator as a WebApp, hence erasing the potentially difficult and time consuming act of setting up the machines.

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  • Thesis

Other Research

• Games for Teaching Computer in Higher Education - A Systematic Review - Examines 107 computer science education games teaching skills from security to software development.