Potential insiders are individuals with privileged access to IT components, IT services, installations, documents or other critical information and devices. Because of their access and knowledge, they are particularly dangerous and at the same time difficult to defend against.
With the tabletop game Operation Digital Ant, possible attacks by insiders in food production and logistics as well as possible countermeasures can be identified. Several teams play the role of malicious insiders and compete against each other.
The game is part of the NutriSafe Toolkits and is developed by Manfred Hofmeier at the Institute for Protection and Dependability of the Universität der Bundeswehr München.
The serious game Operation Digital Ant is a tabletop game, which can be played both in a face-to-face event and virtually. For a virtual event a video conferencing tool with breakout function is required. Use the digital card deck in such events.
For questions or support in using the game, please contact manfred.hofmeier@unibw.de.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
If you would like to support us - the Institute for Protection and Dependability of the Universität der Bundeswehr München - in our insider threat research, you can send us your anonymized game results.
We thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for the funding of NutriSafe(FKZ: 13N15070) within the civil security reserch programme as well as the Austrian Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (BMLRT) for funding NutriSafe within the security research funding programme KIRAS (projectnumber: 867015).