The program for ASE'17 is out! Join us in Vancouver to hear some great papers, see some awesome demos and meet some stellar people.

2017 USENIX Workshop on Advances in Security Education

• https://www.usenix.org/conference/ase17
• August 15, 2017 in Vancouver, BC.
• co-located with USENIX Security

Zachary Peterson recently had the opportuinity to collaborate with Andreas Haggman at Royal Holloway University to create a video demonstrating the value of visualizing security issues through game play. The video features [d0x3d!] as a way to introduce the idea of the value of digital data to young, non-CS students, as well as Andreas' fascinating cyber wargame.

The video is available here, and below.

Zachary Peterson was invited to speak at USENIX Enigma 2016 in San Francisco about some of our efforts under the TableTopSecurity project. The video is now up on YouTube!

Our experiences on using narrative-driven alternate reality security games for first-year CS students will be appearing at the 2015 USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET15).

For a while now, we've been interested in security education with creative and engaging narratives, paired with rabbit-hole/puzzle-like structures. We wrote a grant about it and we've been trying out structure and puzzles since then.

Most recently, we got a chance to use some of these exercises described in our paper at EPIC 2015. Below, at the Cal Poly Cyber Lab, we are running through a scaffolded puzzle built around a …

We had an awesome time playing [d0x3d!] at CalPoly SLO's EPIC 2015 program with campers each week (Grade 7-9, Grades 10-11, Grade 12). Bright students, really engaged, having fun with a broad range of STEM topics! It was a pleasure getting to talk, play board games, and listen to what they thought about the data they value in their lives.