Lead
University of Bath

Research leads
Dr. Joanna Syrda - University of Bath

Dr. Oishee Kundu - University of Bath

Focus:
Decisions about secure hardware adoption and cybersecurity investment do not happen in a vacuum. Organisations face competing needs and seek to allocate scare resources in the face of numerous trade-offs. These decisions are frequently made simultaneously, under time pressure and under imperfect information. They are also typically not one-shot decisions as organisations keep optimising, learning and updating their beliefs in a complex multi-stage setting.

To better understand and analyse them we will develop and deliver an online game of digital business survival that models and simulates real-life decision-making scenarios about investment in growth and digital security. Using this novel, widely accessible, engaging format we will share and collect actionable insights with policy makers, developers, public and private organisations, and everyone else who wants to play!

Goals:

Our online game of digital business survival will enable two-way learning and knowledge transfer:  

1. It will bring to the player (or teams of players) the environment faced by organisations when making decision about digital security investment, and thereby insights from our research, to help reflect on and improve decision-making.

2. It will help researchers further study how organisations make decision about secure hardware adoption and cybersecurity investment in the face of these numerous uncertain trade-offs based on players’ actions.

As we know and understand more, we can create favourable conditions for optimal cybersecurity investment and adoption, and we can make better predictions.

Email:
jes54@bath.ac.uk or ok463@bath.ac.uk