CyberSecurity Challenges: Serious Games for Awareness Training in Industrial Environments
This work addresses cybersecurity training for software developers in critical industrial settings, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing serious game approaches.
The authors tackled the problem of low cybersecurity awareness among software developers in industrial environments by introducing a new serious game for training, which was shown to be well-accepted as an alternative to traditional classroom methods.
Awareness of cybersecurity topics, e.g., related to secure coding guidelines, enables software developers to write secure code. This awareness is vital in industrial environments for the products and services in critical infrastructures. In this work, we introduce and discuss a new serious game designed for software developers in the industry. This game addresses software developers' needs and is shown to be well suited for raising secure coding awareness of software developers in the industry. Our work results from the experience of the authors gained in conducting more than ten CyberSecurity Challenges in the industry. The presented game design, which is shown to be well accepted by software developers, is a novel alternative to traditional classroom training. We hope to make a positive impact in the industry by improving the cybersecurity of products at their early production stages.