Cyber Awareness Learning Imitation Environment (CALIE): A Card Game to provide Cyber Security Awareness for Various Group of Practitioners

Abstract

Cyber attacks produced a massive impact for all online users, interrupted intended users internet services, financial losses, business interruptions for a large-scale industry. A proper cyber security education is must for the employees of an organization. The management prefers active based learning environment to train all non-IT and non-professionals working in an organization. This research work concentrates on development of gaming platform in both local host and in an online mode as a videogame for cyber security education. With this regard, Cyber Awareness Learning Imitation Environment - a card deck gaming environment is proposed where attackers can choose the attack cards to learn various cyber-attacks, defense cards are used for providing the suitable defense mechanism, Instruction card- to be used for learning about how to generate cyber-attacks and recent incident card used to train the players with recent incidents of various cyber-attacks discussed such as malware attack, phishing attack, password attack, Man-in-the-Middle attack, Structured Query Language injection attack, denial of service attack, insider threats, crypto jacking, zero-day exploit and watering hole attack. Questionnaire based feedback report is collected from the players to analyze their understanding about various cyber-attacks.