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CyberCIEGE
The purpose of the CyberCIEGE project is to create an Information Assurance (IA) teaching/learning laboratory. In addition to rigorous scientific foundations, it involves the application of abstract principles to the real world. A hands-on virtual laboratory provides a dynamic and often surprising context where abstract principles can be applied and discovered. CyberCIEGE packages an information assurance laboratory as an interactive, entertaining, commercial-grade PC-based computer game where players construct and defend a networked computing system. Students will select information technology resources to meet explicit needs of virtual "users", and defend the resulting system from both vandals and professional attackers.

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Cyber Security Simulation
In its interactive environment, CyberCIEGE covers significant aspects of computer and network security and defense. Players of this video game purchase and configure workstations, servers, operating systems, applications, and network devices. They make trade offs as they struggle to maintain a balance between budget, productivity, and security. In its longer scenarios, users advance through a series of stages and must protect increasingly valuable corporate assets against escalating attacks.

CyberCIEGE includes configurable firewalls, VPNs, link encryptors and access control mechanisms. It includes identity management components such as biometric scanners and authentication servers. Attack types include corrupt insiders, trap doors, Trojan horses, viruses, denial of service, and exploitation of weakly configured systems. Attacker motives to compromise assets differ by asset and scenario, thereby supporting scenarios ranging from e-mail attachment awareness to cyber warfare.

video game display

Posters

2007 NPS CyberCIEGE Poster as (PDF) or (PPT)

Publications

Cone, B. D., Irvine, C. E., Thompson, M. F., Nguyen, T. D., "A Video Game for Cyber Security Training and Awareness", Computers & Security 26 (2007) pp. 63-72

Cone, B. D., Thompson, M. F., Irvine, C. E. and Nguyen, T. D., "Cyber Security Training and Awareness Through Game Play," 2006, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 201, Security and Privacy in Dynamic Environments, eds. Fischer-Hubner, S., Rannenberg, K., Yngstrom, L., Lindskog, S., (Boston: Springer), pp. 431-436.

Irvine, C.E., Thompson, M.F., Allen, K.,"CyberCIEGE: Gaming for Information Assurance", Naval Postgraduate Sch., Monterey, CA, USA; Security & Privacy Magazine, IEEE, May-June 2005, Volume: 3, Issue: 3, page(s): 61- 64, ISSN: 1540-7993

Irvine, C.E., Thompson, M.F., Allen, K., "CyberCIEGE: An Extensible Tool for Information Assurance Education" CISSE conference

Irvine, C.E., Thompson, M.F., Allen, K., "CyberCIEGE: An Information Assurance Teaching Tool for Training and Awareness", Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association Conference, North Bethesda, MD, March 22-23 2005.

Irvine, C.E., Thompson, M.F., "Expressing an Information Security Policy Within a Security Simulation Game", Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Education in Computer Security (WECS6), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California , July 12-16 2004, pp. 43-49

Irvine, C.E., Thompson, M.F., "Teaching Objectives of a Simulation Game for Computer Security", Proceedings of the Informing Science and Information Technology Joint Conference, Pori, Finland, June 24-27 2003

Theses

Fielk, K. W., "CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Integrity Risks to a Military Like Facility", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004 (Abstract, PDF)

Lamorie, J., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Secrecy Issues in an Internal Corporate Network Connected to the Internet", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, September 2004 (Abstract, PDF)

LaMore, R.L., "CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Secrecy Issues Through Mandatory and Discretionary Access Control Policies in a Multi-Level Security Network", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004 (Abstract, PDF)

Meyer, M.K., "A CyberCIEGE Scenario Illustrating Multilevel Secrecy Issues in an Air Operations Center Environment", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, June 2004 (Abstract, PDF)

Johns, Jr. K. W., "Toward Managing and Automating CyberCIEGE Scenario Definition File Creation", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004 (Abstract, PDF)

Teo, T. L., "Scenario Selection And Student Assessment Modules For CyberCIEGE", Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, December 2003 (Abstract, PDF)

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