EAGER: Visualizing Cyber Defense Networks

SRI国际(SRI)和庇护实验室(SAFE)建议使用3D虚拟世界游戏技术来增强网络挑战赛(C3)的理解、参与因素和招募影响。该项目旨在通过设计在电子竞技联盟中被证明非常成功的可视化和演示技术来应对C3参与度的挑战。该项目将展示如何通过网络安全人才招聘的高参与度可视化层来改造C3论坛。这个项目有可能增加学生和研究人员社区对网络挑战学术竞赛的参与度。它将实施电子竞技比赛的关键创新和经验教训，作为可视化框架的潜在设计替代方案。通过增加C3的兴趣和影响力，它将有助于识别和吸引有才华的人。提升C3活动参与者和观众的体验有可能增加人们对网络安全专业的兴趣，促进网络安全成为更大的人才库，并降低人们对该领域感兴趣的年龄。目前，电子竞技赛事在少数群体中吸引了比C3赛事更广泛的追随者。该项目旨在增加C3活动对更年轻和更广泛的受众的吸引力，并了解阻碍女性和少数族裔学生参与网络安全相关领域的具体因素。该项目的目的是确定和发展关键的网络安全技能。在当代C3赛事中采用的参与策略和人性化的演示方法似乎吸引了那些已经对网络安全产生兴趣的人。拟议的网络攻击和防御系统的底层3D游戏般的可视化可能会导致对未来威胁分析环境的操作增强。该项目将主要关注人类参与和理解快节奏计算机攻防比赛中复杂的数据呈现。该项目的系统设计将纳入来自人机交互(HCI)研究社区的观点和先前的研究，包括抽象、包容性人口和性别吸引力、直观的图像学和视觉认知负荷管理。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

SRI International (SRI) and Asylum Labs (Asylum) propose using 3D virtual world gaming technologies to enhance the understanding, engagement factors, and the recruitment impact of Cyber Challenge Competitions (C3). This project intends to address the C3 engagement challenge by designing visualization and presentation technologies that have proven highly successful in e-Sports leagues. The project will demonstrate how C3 forums can be transformed with a high-engagement visualization layer for cybersecurity talent recruitment. This project has a potential to increase student and researcher community engagement in cyber-challenge academic competitions. It will implement key innovations and lessons from e-Sports competitions as potential design alternatives for the visualization framework. By increasing the interest and impact of C3, it will help to identify and attract talented individuals. Elevating the experience of participants and spectators at C3 events has a potential to increase interest in the cybersecurity profession, promote cybersecurity to a larger talent pool, and decrease the age at which people become interested in this field. Currently, e-Sports events draw a broader following among minority groups than C3 events. The project aims to increase the appeal of C3 events to a younger and broader audience and to understand specific factors that inhibit female and minority student participation in fields related to cybersecurity.The purpose of this project is to identify and develop critical cybersecurity skills. The engagement strategies and human-intuitive presentation methods employed in the current generation of C3 events seem to attract those who have already acquired an interest in cybersecurity. The proposed underlying 3D game-like visualization of network attack and defense systems may lead to operational enhancements to future threat-analysis environments. The project will primarily focus on human engagement and understanding of complex data presentation in fast-paced computer attack and defense competitions. The project's system design will incorporate perspectives and prior research from the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research community, including abstraction, inclusive demographic and gender appeal, intuitive iconography, and visual-cognitive load management.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.