Consciousness of Cyber Defense: Boundary Objects for Expansive Learning Through Creation of Contradictions

Shuyuan Mary Ho, Diogo Oliveira, Raghav Rathi

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Abstract

Cyber attackers gain access into systems, networks and cyberinfrastructure by escalating privileges to confidential information regardless of the efforts systems engineers put into security. The chess game between cyber offense and defense destabilizes the ability of organizations to protect their information assets. This research employs the lens of Activity Theory to study the interaction through the contradictions embedded between the cyber attackers and cyber defenders. These types of contradictions were forcefully created and simulated in the cyber security virtual lab at Florida State University for the purpose of facilitating real-world scenario-based learning experiences. Both network traffic data and interviews were collected in order to identify the boundary objects that intersect the two activity systems. Natural language processing (NLP) was adopted to explore and extract topics frequently used by both activity systems. Consciousness of cyber defense was expanded by creating contradictions, and boundary objects were identified by comparing the interactions between these two activity systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHCI in Business, Government and Organizations. Information Systems and Analytics - 6th International Conference, HCIBGO 2019, Held as Part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
EditorsFiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages338-353
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030223373
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019
Event6th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations, HCIBGO 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2019 - Orlando, United States
Duration: Jul 26 2019Jul 31 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11589 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference6th International Conference on HCI in Business, Government, and Organizations, HCIBGO 2019, held as part of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period7/26/197/31/19

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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