Document Type
Event
Start Date
1-12-2022 5:00 PM
Description
Cybersecurity Park is an educational VR game intended for middle-school-age children that aims to demonstrate a wide range of cybersecurity concepts to the players. Such concepts include hacking ethics and types of hackers, cryptography, Trojan Horse / ransomware viruses, and authentication and authorization. These concepts are split into various mini-games that the player can freely navigate to from the hub they spawn in. For example, in the mini-game showcasing the Trojan Horse concept, players play as a knight defending a castle from evildoers. Visitors will approach the castle and ask access into the castle, and, based on the actions by the visitors, the player will choose whether or not to allow access into the castle. The player acts as a firewall, and the visitors act like applications requesting access into a computer. If a bad visitor/application is let into the castle (representing a computer), then the castle will begin to catch fire. This one of six mini-games present within this game, and video demonstrations of some of these mini-games are provided.
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UC-296 Cybersecurity Park
Cybersecurity Park is an educational VR game intended for middle-school-age children that aims to demonstrate a wide range of cybersecurity concepts to the players. Such concepts include hacking ethics and types of hackers, cryptography, Trojan Horse / ransomware viruses, and authentication and authorization. These concepts are split into various mini-games that the player can freely navigate to from the hub they spawn in. For example, in the mini-game showcasing the Trojan Horse concept, players play as a knight defending a castle from evildoers. Visitors will approach the castle and ask access into the castle, and, based on the actions by the visitors, the player will choose whether or not to allow access into the castle. The player acts as a firewall, and the visitors act like applications requesting access into a computer. If a bad visitor/application is let into the castle (representing a computer), then the castle will begin to catch fire. This one of six mini-games present within this game, and video demonstrations of some of these mini-games are provided.