Teaching Game Theory to Improve Adversarial Thinking in Cybersecurity Students

Autor/inn/en	Hamman, Seth T.; Hopkinson, Kenneth M.; Markham, Ruth L.; Chaplik, Andrew M.; Metzler, Gabrielle E.
Titel	Teaching Game Theory to Improve Adversarial Thinking in Cybersecurity Students
Quelle	In: IEEE Transactions on Education, 60 (2017) 3, S.205-211 (7 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Hopkinson, Kenneth M.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-9359
DOI	10.1109/TE.2016.2636125
Schlagwörter	Game Theory; Information Security; Computer Science Education; Undergraduate Students; Pretests Posttests; Internet; Computer Security; Thinking Skills; Experimental Groups; Control Groups; Statistical Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Spieltheorie; Computer science lessons; Informatikunterricht; Computervirus; Computersicherheit; Denkfähigkeit; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	The ability to anticipate the strategic actions of hackers, including where, when, and how they might attack, and their tactics for evading detection, is a valuable skill for cybersecurity. Therefore, developing the strategic reasoning abilities of cybersecurity students is an important cybersecurity education learning objective. This paper proposes that basic game theory concepts should be taught to cybersecurity students in order to improve their strategic reasoning abilities. It details a pretest-posttest educational experiment that demonstrates that 2 h of basic game theory instruction results in a statistically significant improvement in students' abilities to anticipate the strategic actions of others. It also provides details of the game theory curriculum to help other cybersecurity educators replicate these results. Additionally, this paper suggests that another benefit of teaching game theory in a cybersecurity course is that it may fundamentally alter the way students view the practice of cybersecurity, helping to sensitize them to the human adversary element inherent in cybersecurity in addition to technology-focused best practices. This could result in a more naturally strategic-minded, and therefore better equipped, cybersecurity workforce. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01