Improving Human Responses to Cyberdefense by Serious Gaming

Fabian Muhly ()
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Fabian Muhly: Military Academy at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

Chapter Chapter 12 in Cyberdefense, 2023, pp 183-194 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In a quasi-experiment that used a tabletop serious gaming approach, 180 soldiers of the Swiss Armed Forces were confronted with a phishing attack that employed intricate social engineering methods. The study examined the extent to which they were prone to falling to such attacks, and it investigated how serious gaming could immunize them. The results suggest that participation in serious gaming reduces the probability to be victimized by social engineering attacks. However, overconfident and indifferent users are more likely to fall for such attacks, whereas a more pessimistic stance is negatively associated with failure.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-30191-9_12

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