Adversary Personas
Difficulty Level:
Method Overview
Adversary Personas is an interactive role-playing game, designed for industry teams to critically engage and think broadly and creatively about potential cybersecurity threats. (Daylight Security Research Lab, 2019)
Framework of ethics used:
consequentialist
pragmatist
Method Intentions:
Getting Started
You will need:
Materials: adversary persona card deck (download here)
Participants: a team of 2-10 people
Steps (Daylight Security Research Lab, 2019):
- Write down a list of things you want to protect
- Identify who your adversaries are
- Generate a list of needs of adversaries
- Respond to the list of needs of adversaries
- Discover existing and unexpected resources adversaries have at their disposal
- Role-play adversary personas and map out attackers’ needs or desires
Further Reading
Citation
Nick Merrill and Joanne Ma. [n.d.]. Adversary Personas. Retrieved February 22, 2022, from https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/ethical-design-practical-getting-started-guide/.
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