Threats & trade-offs: A start-up simulation game for cybersecurity and innovation decision-making

Stsiampkouskaya, Kseniya, Kundu, Oishee, Syrda, Joanna and Joinson, Adam 2025. Threats & trade-offs: A start-up simulation game for cybersecurity and innovation decision-making. Information Systems Frontiers 10.1007/s10796-025-10604-3

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Abstract

Cybersecurity is now critically important in an increasingly digitized and connected world. In addition to required digital security, individuals and organisations pursue multiple other objectives under binding resource constraints. Understanding how they make decisions in the face of these trade-offs is important for both research and teaching purposes. Games can create effective and exciting learning environments and also provide an immersive and experiment-based research setting to understand decision-making. We present a novel tabletop board game which sets cybersecurity in a broader organisational context and emulates real life business decisions. It can be used as a powerful research tool to understand decision-making about cybersecurity in a resource-constrained and uncertain environment. It is also a useful interdisciplinary educational tool, integrating concepts from cybersecurity, business development, and innovation management in gameplay.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Research Institutes & Centres > Centre For Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	1387-3326
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	27 May 2025
Date of Acceptance:	7 April 2025
Last Modified:	28 May 2025 14:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178535

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