Abstract
This chapter showcases the realistic cybersecurity scenario simulation platform CyberCentric. The objective of CyberCentric is to reach out to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in a number of defined areas to provide them with the capability to share information on cybersecurity-related issues and help them experience the impact of cyberattacks as well as means to mitigate against them. CyberCentric’s overall goal is to provide SMEs and citizens with protective knowledge to improve their cyber resilience. This chapter provides an overview of the game and its components from a user perspective.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Notes
- 1.
CENTRIC is the Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
- 7.
EU Research COURAGE project. See Akhgar and Brewster (2016).
- 8.
Botnets can be used to push other strains of malware, harvest users’ credentials, compromise their online bank or other accounts, exfiltrate confidential information or facilitate other crimes such as denial of service attacks, spam email campaigns or ransomware attacks. Often botnets can compromise many thousands of computers. For example, GameOver Zeus had over 326,000 victims globally (cp. goz.shadowserver.org/stats/), and Conficker – a piece of malware known since 2008 – still has over 600,000 infections globally (cp. https://www.grahamcluley.com/2015/12/seven-years-conficker-worm-dead-dominating/; http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki /pmwiki.php/Stats/Conficker). Crime of this scale requires a paradigm shift in approach for law enforcement globally.
- 9.
References
Akhgar, B., & Brewster, B. (Eds.). (2016). Combating cyber cime and cyber terrorism. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Bayerl, P. S., & Jacobs, G. (2017). Evaluating the design and implementation of CP-support technologies: A participatory framework. In P. S. Bayerl, R. Karlovic, B. Akhgar, & G. Markarian (Eds.), Community policing - A European perspective (Advanced sciences and technologies for security applications) (pp. 247–267). Cham, Germany: Springer.
Dix, A. (2007). Designing for appropriation. Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers (pp. 27–30).
Eldridge, S., Lancaster, G., Campbell, M., Thabane, L., Hopewell, S., Coleman, C., et al. (2016). Defining feasibility and pilot studies in preparation for randomised controlled trials: Development of a conceptual framework. PloS one, 11(3), e0150205.
Sauer, J., Seibel, K., & Rüttinger, B. (2010). The influence of user expertise and prototype fidelity in usability tests. Applied Ergonomics, 41(1), 130–140.
Sauro, J. (2018). Do novices or experts uncover more usability issues? Available online: https://measuringu.com/novice-expert-issues/
Thabane, L., Ma, J., Chu, R., Cheng, J., Ismaila, A., Rios, L., et al. (2010). A tutorial on pilot studies: The what, why and how. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 10(1), 1–10.
Van Teijlingen, E., & Hundley, V. (2001). The importance of pilot studies. Social Research Updates, 35. Available online: http://sru.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SRU35.pdf
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Akhgar, B., Saunders, J., Hancock, P., Lyle, A., Newsham, D.S.S. (2019). CyberCentric: Increasing SME and Citizen Resilience Against Cyberattacks. In: Akhgar, B. (eds) Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29926-2_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29926-2_12
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-29925-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-29926-2
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)