Overview:
The MORS Certificate in Cyber Wargaming examines the challenges of gaming cyber through a combination of lectures and practical exercises. Lectures will focus on games and game design, along with the application of game design to cyber issues. Practical exercises will give participants the chance to experience different types of cyber games, allowing them to assess requirements, plan budgets, practice response procedures, and examine player actions during play. These games will place them in decision-making roles during a simulated real-world problem—be it historical, contemporary, or projected into the future—and are currently used by decision makers within government, industry, and academia to examine policy issues and outcomes. At the end of the course, students will research, design, and present their own cyber game.
Objectives:
Our expert instructors will introduce participants to the various ways that game design can be used to address the challenges of cyber operations and policy. Participants will:
- Learn how to think about cyber technology and processes to build effective games
- Build an understanding of how to represent cyber capabilities in games, including how to match the technical layers of game play with operational and strategic layers
- Build games directly addressing cyber operations
- Develop an awareness of the gaming tools available for cyber, and begin to associate specific game techniques with various cyber gaming requirements