The Assessment of a Cyber Security Learning Card-Game

[[abstract]]In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet applications and services, how to construct a secure network environment to cope with the various threats becomes a very important issue. Recently, the KDELab of Asia University has developed the iMonsters card game. In this thesis, we propose an Internet security knowledge building algorithm to build up Internet security knowledge base by collecting and analyzing real Internet security incidents. This knowledge base is then used to help designing the rules and roles of the iMonsters card game. Therefore, students can learn the basic concepts of attacks and defenses via the game playing, where they can play different roles during the game immersive learning. Besides, the knowledge of attacks and defenses are represented as concept relations. With the help of concept map, the students can easily show what they learned during the game playing. In addition, students were engaged in discussing and analyzing their special game tactics with the concept map. We may conclude that the iMonsters card game can stimulate the students’ learning motivation and can enhance their skills and knowledge of Internet security. In the near future, we are going to design the Internet attack and defense cookbook based upon the Internet security knowledge building algorithm