GameSS

Educational Material in Cyber Security

The GAMification and Education for Secure Software (GAMESS) is a project supported by the Ministry of Education to create competence building in cyber security.

Our goal with GameSS

Our target audience

Topics

What is our goal with GameSS?

1

Develop new courses and training materials for IT users

We want to develop new courses and training materials for users of digital products to raise their awareness of the IT security of the products they use and the best security practices to adopt.

2

Develop new courses and training materials for IT professionals

We want to support IT professionals (e.g., individuals with a background in computer science, software development or cybersecurity) to further their understanding of best security-by-design practices, thereby promoting IT security in the development of a new generation of digital products and their use.

3

Use a new and different approach

We want to use a new and different approach than existing training opportunities, inspired by the “Capture the Flag Competition”. The teaching material will be designed using a gamification approach. This includes developing challenges that students/practitioners must try to solve in a competitive environment. Solution certificates etc. are awarded to enhance the experience of competition.

4

Enhancing the defensive side mindset

We want to tackle not only the “attacking” aspect of cybersecurity, but also the defensive side. With this, we want to promote and test a new proactive mindset to tackle cybersecurity. Indeed, the idea behind attacking is to find a vulnerability or a weak point where the defensive mindset requires considering and securing all possible vulnerabilities for attacks.