Lead
University of Bath

Actionable Insight leads
Dr. Joanna Syrda - University of Bath

Dr. Oishee Kundu - University of Bath

Focus:
Decisions about secure hardware adoption and cybersecurity investment do not happen in a vacuum. Organisations face competing needs and seek to allocate scare resources in the face of numerous trade-offs. These decisions are frequently made simultaneously, under time pressure and under imperfect information. They are also typically not one-shot decisions as organisations keep optimising, learning and updating their beliefs in a complex multi-stage setting.

To better understand and analyse them we will develop and deliver an online version of the ‘Threats and Trade-offs’ board game developed within Discribe WP1.

Goals:

Our online game of implementation of the board game will enable two-way learning and knowledge transfer:  

1. It will bring to many more players (or teams of players) to experience the challenges faced by organisations when making decisions about digital security investment.

2. It will help researchers further study how organisations make decision about secure hardware adoption and cybersecurity investment in the face of these numerous uncertain trade-offs based on players’ actions by allowing the collection of data without the need for games masters, as well as easy manipulation of variables of interest.

As we know and understand more, we can create favourable conditions for optimal cybersecurity investment and adoption, and we can make better predictions.

Try the game yourself! The game can be accessed for free by signing up for an account here: https://threats-tradeoffs.org/accounts/sign_up

Email: threatstradeoffs@bath.ac.uk