Via: MAVI Interactive LLC - Agent Surefire: Inside Threat
Shortly after my post Converting Cybersecurity Practice Into Engaging Serious Games, , MAVI released Agent Surefire: Insider Threat, which is over three times larger and provides a more in-depth cyber security awareness training than the previous Agent Surefire: Breach Buster.
The new "Serious Game" has won the Gold Stevie® Award for Best Training Application in the app awards categories of The 2012 International Business Awards, plus 6 others.
First released in 2010, the Agent Surefire series of immersive Cybersecurity Serious Games allow trainees to practice—in first person view—how to notice and avoid cyber-security vulnerabilities inside the workspace. The Stevie Award-winning Agent Surefire: Insider Threat is the third chapter in this series.
Cyber Crime is an ever-evolving threat.
Developing skills in identifying and detecting tell-tale signs of breaches help
individuals to respond in adaptive ways. Agent Surefire: Insider Threat
places the trainee in the position of a skilled inspector in a real-world cyber
breach scenario happening in near-real-time. Common threat vectors are mapped
onto the training objectives while more advanced threat vectors are laced into
the scenario, providing a dynamic environment for engaged decision making and
hands-on experience. Applied gaming theory and neuroscience of learning provide
immersion, repetition, emotional responses and develop critical thinking.
The game is now a full scale organizational training tool with full
behavioral data collection and reporting.
There are almost 300% greater Cybersecurity content compared to the previous
version. There are a lot of more animated and interactive content in delivering
the scenario elements which also deliver some of the training materials.
MAVI has completely re-built the environment and the scenario, continuing
on the existing dramatic theme of Agent vs. Hacker, expanding the Agent
Surefire “universe”.
The Bonus Mission breaks into three different story paths with 5
different endings, all depending on the trainees’ response to a difficult
choice; “catch the hacker or save the data”. This game has also an original
soundtrack recorded by a real 30-piece orchestra, (Skywalker Sound, CA) in the
same fashion as console games.
Game
Context
Trainees are asked to take on the role of “Agent
Surefire”, find and categorize Threat Vectors and Vulnerabilities, and to stop
an on-going breach from happening. The human-interest storyline keeps the
attention level high, while the original score enhances the multi-sensory
experience (MAVI has posted a teaser video on Vimeo).
The game content is run on the MAVI Serious Game
Engine, which collects time-stamped behavioral information on each trainee, and
provides training administrators with a clear understanding of each trainee's
critical-thinking skills as well as identifying their weaknesses.
Bora Aytun, co-founder and CEO of MAVI Interactive, says: “Gaining
critical-thinking skills is essential in securing an organization’s
intellectual property."
“Cyber attacks are constantly evolving. It is next to impossible to keep
up with all the new threats. We simply must learn to recognize the signs and
avoid common mistakes. Cyber attackers always aim for the weakest link in the chain
of defense, which is usually vulnerability caused by an individual’s day-to-day
actions. Technology can’t always save users from making poor choices, so users
must become aware of their direct impact in securing sensitive information.”
Adds Aytun: "Neuroscience today is teaching us how to deliver
content in ways the human brain can easily absorb. Our mission is to make the
highest quality experiential learning available to the masses. With our
powerful platform we create highly effective training simulations at a fraction
of the cost and time.”
About
Bora Aytun
Bora Aytun is the CEO of MAVI Interactive, LLC, which he co-founded in
2008. He is also the co-founder of MAVI Film, specializing in Internet/TV
broadcast integration and B2B product development for the broadcast industry.
Prior to that, he was IS Project Manager at Alpha Scientific Corporation.
In 1990, Aytun started his own consulting company, MAVI Consulting, serving a
number of media and marketing companies in Turkey from 1990 to 1998. Aytun has
a degree in Business Administration and Communications from Ege University in
Turkey.
About
MAVI Interactive
MAVI Interactive develops
immersive training simulations and Serious Games. The company partners with
industry leaders in training and education to create a wide range of engaging
learning tools. MAVI’s partners and clients benefit from an award-winning
gamification methodology and the MAVI Serious Gaming Engine and Platform to
drastically reduce deployment time and costs in solving challenging training
problems.