<p>Technology evolves at such a rapid
pace nowadays, keeping up with education on cyber security tends to fall. Even with the rising threats, people put their
personal information in their computers without knowing who could access the
information. Many people keep their personal information online when they do shopping,
banking, or on social media. These online activities attract adversaries that
may have malicious attentions. The lack of cyber security practices is evident
as we often hear the news of large-scale cyberattack incidents against
financial institutions that leads to breach of personal information of their
users. Cyber-attacks can have long term damaging
effects. Cybersecurity awareness is necessary to start at an early age. If this
subject is delivered to young users as an interactive tutorial, using
game-based principles, then it is more likely to be learned in an entertaining manner.
Hence, this thesis project focuses on a framework development for interactive
and engaging cybersecurity education and its evaluation. </p>
<p>The framework is developed to
educate the users various cybersecurity related topics, such as malware, web
security, and network security. It consists four stages for each topic:
information, interaction, explanation, and assessment.
In the information module, the user is presented details related to the topic.
To maintain users’ interest, interaction module allows users to interrelate
with common hacking attacks from real life situations. Explanation module provides
the discussion of interaction module and introduces defense techniques. The
users are tested in the Assessment module to measure their learning to be able
to advance to next levels within the same topic. The developed framework is customizable since
more modules can be integrated and existing modules can be swiftly modified. In
addition, multiple surveys were conducted to analyze whether this
framework explains the cybersecurity topics easily. </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:purdue.edu/oai:figshare.com:article/13379900 |
| Date | 17 December 2020 |
| Creators | Gabriel Alejandro Castro Aguayo (9768428) |
| Source Sets | Purdue University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis |
| Rights | CC BY 4.0 |
| Relation | https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/A_VISUALIZATION_TOOL_FOR_CYBERSECURITY_EDUCATION_FOR_HIGH_SCHOOL_STUDENTS/13379900 |
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