Adversary Personas

Method Overview

An interactive role-playing game, designed for industry teams to critically engage and think broadly and creatively about potential cybersecurity threats.

Getting Started

Materials: Adversary Persona card deck

Participants: Team (2-10 people)

Steps (from the method website description):

1. Write down a list of things you want to protect
2. Identify who your adversaries are
   
3. Generate a list of needs of adversaries
   
4. Respond to the list of needs of adversaries
   
5. Discover existing and unexpected resources adversaries have at their disposal
   
6. Role-play adversary personas and map out attackers’ needs or desires