Multiplayer Game Technology to Manage Critical Infrastructure Protection

The correct functioning of critical infrastructures is crucial for modern society. These systems provide the backbone to our everyday lives and, therefore, securing and protecting them is a challenging yet vital issue. This project studies the vulnerabilities and protection challenges these systems present, and proposes a solution using a collaborative multi-user game-based visualisation interface. This project proposes a tool that models and represents a complex system in an easy-to-understand, comprehensive manner, enabling all those involved in monitoring the system to detect problems and threats, and make better informed security decisions. The game-like interface allows a real-time coordinated response from all the different stakeholders involved in controlling and protecting the system. The interface will resemble a massively-multiplayer online game (MMOG), in which different users with different roles and access levels will have a personalised view of the system and react to security warnings in order to protect the system.