Title
Decision-Makers' Understanding of Cyber-Security's Systemic and Dynamic Complexity: Insights from a Board Game for Bank Managers
Abstract
Cyber-security incidents show how difficult it is to make optimal strategic decisions in such a complex environment. Given that it is hard for researchers to observe organisations' decision-making processes driving cyber-security strategy, we developed a board game that mimics this real-life environment and shows the challenges of decision-making. We observed cyber-security experts participating in the game. The results showed that decision-makers who performed poorly tended to employ heuristics, leading to fallacious decision approaches (overreaction strategies in place of proactive ones), and were not always aware of their poor performances. We advocate the need for decision support tools that capture this complex dynamic nature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/systems10020049
SYSTEMS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cyber-security dynamics, cyber-security management, cyber-security board game, banking cyber-security, cyber-security training, system dynamics gamification
Journal
10
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
2079-8954
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5