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Cyberspace Odyssey: A Competitive Team-Oriented Serious Game In Computer Networking, Kendra Graham [I], James Anderson [I], Conrad Rife [I], Bryce Heitmeyer [I], Pranav R. Patel [*], Scott L. Nykl, Alan C. Lin, Laurence D. Merkle Jul 2020

Cyberspace Odyssey: A Competitive Team-Oriented Serious Game In Computer Networking, Kendra Graham [I], James Anderson [I], Conrad Rife [I], Bryce Heitmeyer [I], Pranav R. Patel [*], Scott L. Nykl, Alan C. Lin, Laurence D. Merkle

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Cyber Space Odyssey (CSO) is a novel serious game supporting computer networking education by engaging students in a race to successfully perform various cybersecurity tasks in order to collect clues and solve a puzzle in virtual near-Earth 3D space. Each team interacts with the game server through a dedicated client presenting a multimodal interface, using a game controller for navigation and various desktop computer networking tools of the trade for cybersecurity tasks on the game's physical network. Specifically, teams connect to wireless access points, use packet monitors to intercept network traffic, decrypt and reverse engineer that traffic, craft well-formed and …