Choose Your Own Hacking Adventure: Contextualized Storytelling to Enhance Security Education and Training
Ersin Dincelli, InduShobha N. Chengalur-Smith · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2019
Most cyber-security incidents and data breaches have been caused by human error and negligence. Therefore, there has been a keen interest in developing security education and training programs to mitigate users’ security lapses. This study proposes a contextualized and participatory storytelling approach in which learners alter the course of the story-line by making their own decisions, determine the main character’s actions, and the outcome of the story-line. The proposed “choose your own adventure” style story-line allows learners to determine security threats that they are most susceptible to and provides personalized feedback based on the threat outcomes they encounter. Such interactive and participatory approaches that provide personalized feedback and mnemonics can be an effective tool for educating users about complex cyber-security threats.