Extended CyberCIEGE
CyberCIEGE is an innovative computer-based tool to teach network security concepts. CyberCIEGE enhances information assurance education and training through the use of computer gaming techniques such as those employed in SimCity™ and RollerCoaster Tycoon®. In the CyberCIEGE virtual world, users spend virtual money to operate and defend their networks, and can watch the consequences of their choices, while under attack.

In its interactive environment, CyberCIEGE covers the significant aspects of network management and defense. Users purchase and configure workstations, servers, operating systems, applications, and network devices. They make tradeoffs and prioritization decisions as they struggle to maintain the ideal balance between budget, productivity, and security. In its longer scenarios, users advance through a series of stages and must protect increasingly valuable corporate assets against escalating attacks.

The purpose of current NCASSR-funded support for CyberCIEGE is to provide for the addition of multiplayer support which would permit players to not only defend their networks, but to challenge those of others. The scenario definition language for CyberCIEGE does not support user interaction for the purpose of challenging another network. Major extensions to the language will be required to achieve this objective. Another area requiring research is the creation of additional scenarios for the existing version of CyberCIEGE. In particular, scenarios that will allow metrics for the assessment of student accomplishment are required.
 
Project Leads
Cynthia Irvine, NPS
Deborah Frincke, PNNL

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CyberCIEGE Information Assurance Training
Extended CyberCIEGE
A CyberCIEGE Information Assurance Training Tool Tutorial will be a special feature of the 7th Workshop on Education in Computer Security, to be held January 4 - 6, 2006
CyberCIEGE Information Assurance Teaching Tool Released by Naval Postgraduate School
Extended CyberCIEGE
NPS press release, February 7, 2005


The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.