Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games

a 2019

Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games

ŠVÁBENSKÝ, Valdemar

Základní údaje

Originální název

Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games

Autoři

ŠVÁBENSKÝ, Valdemar (703 Slovensko, garant, domácí)

Vydání

Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’19), 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14330/19:00108980

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta informatiky

ISBN

978-1-4503-5890-3

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293717

Klíčová slova anglicky

Cybersecurity games; Capture the flag; Learning analytics

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 26. 2. 2019 21:06, RNDr. Valdemar Švábenský, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Capture the Flag games are software applications designed to exercise cybersecurity concepts, practice using security tools, and understand cyber attacks and defense. We develop and employ these games at our university for training purposes, unlike in the traditional competitive setting. During the gameplay, it is possible to collect data about players’ in-game actions, such as typed commands or solution attempts, including the timing of these actions. Although such data was previously employed in computer security research, to the best of our knowledge, there were few attempts to use this data primarily to improve education. In particular, we see an open and challenging research problem in creating an artificial intelligence assistant that would facilitate the learning of each player. Our goal is to propose, apply, and experimentally evaluate data analysis and machine learning techniques to derive information about the players' interactions from the in-game data. We want to use this information to automatically provide each player with a personalized formative assessment. Such assessment will help the players identify their mastered concepts and areas for improvement, along with suggestions and actionable steps to take. Furthermore, we want to identify high- or low-performing players during the game, and subsequently, offer them game tasks more suitable to their skill level. These interventions would supplement or even replace feedback from instructors, which would significantly increase the learning impact of the games, enable more students to learn cybersecurity skills at an individual pace, and lower the costs.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1145/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Aplikovaný výzkum na FI: softwarové architektury kritických infrastruktur, bezpečnost počítačových systémů, techniky pro zpracování a vizualizaci velkých dat a rozšířená realita.

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Aplikovaný výzkum na FI: softwarové architektury kritických infrastruktur, bezpečnost počítačových systémů, techniky pro zpracování a vizualizaci velkých dat a rozšířená realita., DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

ŠVÁBENSKÝ, Valdemar. Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games. In Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’19). 2019. ISBN 978-1-4503-5890-3. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293717.

@proceedings{1483458,
   author = {Švábenský, Valdemar},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’19)},
   doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293717},
   keywords = {Cybersecurity games; Capture the flag; Learning analytics},
   language = {eng},
   isbn = {978-1-4503-5890-3},
   title = {Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games},
   year = {2019}
}

TY  - CONF
ID  - 1483458
AU  - Švábenský, Valdemar
PY  - 2019
TI  - Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games
SN  - 9781450358903
KW  - Cybersecurity games
KW  - Capture the flag
KW  - Learning analytics
N2  - Capture the Flag games are software applications designed to exercise cybersecurity concepts, practice using security tools, and understand cyber attacks and defense. We develop and employ these games at our university for training purposes, unlike in the traditional competitive setting. During the gameplay, it is possible to collect data about players’ in-game actions, such as typed commands or solution attempts, including the timing of these actions. Although such data was previously employed in computer security research, to the best of our knowledge, there were few attempts to use this data primarily to improve education. In particular, we see an open and challenging research problem in creating an artificial intelligence assistant that would facilitate the learning of each player. Our goal is to propose, apply, and experimentally evaluate data analysis and machine learning techniques to derive information about the players' interactions from the in-game data. We want to use this information to automatically provide each player with a personalized formative assessment. Such assessment will help the players identify their mastered concepts and areas for improvement, along with suggestions and actionable steps to take. Furthermore, we want to identify high- or low-performing players during the game, and subsequently, offer them game tasks more suitable to their skill level. These interventions would supplement or even replace feedback from instructors, which would significantly increase the learning impact of the games, enable more students to learn cybersecurity skills at an individual pace, and lower the costs.
ER  -

ŠVÁBENSKÝ, Valdemar. Analyzing User Interactions with Cybersecurity Games. In \textit{Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’19)}. 2019. ISBN~978-1-4503-5890-3. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3287324.3293717.

Podrobný výpis o publikaci