How about a role-playing game to strike fear...
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Russell Brand has a role-playing game for system admins. The game would have each person in the security class be the sysadmin of a single system, and it was that person's responsibility to (a) keep the system from being cracked, (b) keep the users from cracking the sysadmin, and (c) keep the boss happy.
I won't go into any details because for the three years he presented this game at a conference I attend, the scenerios were completely different. But I will give you some insight into why the game was very, very good:
1) It was possible (although very, very unlikely!) that a system could chug along without ever being attacked.
2) The game was constantly being updated based on the latest attacks common on the Internet. In other words, each attach scenerio was based on a real-life crack.
3) Russell showed us that it was possible to foil the attackers without being killed by the users, even in a worst-case scenerio.
4) You gain a healthy respect for a pair of dice controlling your life.
Sadly, I've not heard of this game being made available in the past few years. I'll have to check to see what the status of the game is; if there is a version you can "play" on the net, I'll post the fact somewhere.
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Russell Brand has a role-playing game for system admins. The game would have each person in the security class be the sysadmin of a single system, and it was that person's responsibility to (a) keep the system from being cracked, (b) keep the users from cracking the sysadmin, and (c) keep the boss happy.
I won't go into any details because for the three years he presented this game at a conference I attend, the scenerios were completely different. But I will give you some insight into why the game was very, very good:
1) It was possible (although very, very unlikely!) that a system could chug along without ever being attacked.
2) The game was constantly being updated based on the latest attacks common on the Internet. In other words, each attach scenerio was based on a real-life crack.
3) Russell showed us that it was possible to foil the attackers without being killed by the users, even in a worst-case scenerio.
4) You gain a healthy respect for a pair of dice controlling your life.
Sadly, I've not heard of this game being made available in the past few years. I'll have to check to see what the status of the game is; if there is a version you can "play" on the net, I'll post the fact somewhere.