Innovation in products and services is seen by scholars,by specialized media in management,and by some managers as the main currency in modern economies.This is because it allows high average market profits,fame for i...Innovation in products and services is seen by scholars,by specialized media in management,and by some managers as the main currency in modern economies.This is because it allows high average market profits,fame for innovators,or brand growth,for example.However,in practice,most managers still treat innovation as a secondary issue on their agendas.This problem results from the inability of market professionals to analyze people inside and outside their companies.It is not possible to develop innovative products in a systematic way without treating this point effectively.Moreover,in this process,creativity is a necessary,but not necessarily sufficient,condition to be fulfilled and requires behavioral transformation.In this context,it is believed that behavioral economics can make a sufficient contribution in the form of an analytical marketing tool by offering an analysis closer to human beings'reality,and,thus,allow a better understanding of people's behavior in the process of innovation in the market.展开更多
Software vulnerabilities,when actively exploited by malicious parties,can lead to catastrophic consequences.Proper handling of software vulnerabilities is essential in the industrial context,particularly when the soft...Software vulnerabilities,when actively exploited by malicious parties,can lead to catastrophic consequences.Proper handling of software vulnerabilities is essential in the industrial context,particularly when the software is deployed in critical infrastructures.Therefore,several industrial standards mandate secure coding guidelines and industrial software developers’training,as software quality is a significant contributor to secure software.CyberSecurity Challenges(CSC)form a method that combines serious game techniques with cybersecurity and secure coding guidelines to raise secure coding awareness of software developers in the industry.These cybersecurity awareness events have been used with success in industrial environments.However,until now,these coached events took place on-site.In the present work,we briefly introduce cybersecurity challenges and propose a novel platform that allows these events to take place online.The introduced cybersecurity awareness platform,which the authors call Sifu,performs automatic assessment of challenges in compliance to secure coding guidelines,and uses an artificial intelligence method to provide players with solution-guiding hints.Furthermore,due to its characteristics,the Sifu platform allows for remote(online)learning,in times of social distancing.The CyberSecurity Challenges events based on the Sifu platform were evaluated during four online real-life CSC events.We report on three surveys showing that the Sifu platform’s CSC events are adequate to raise industry software developers awareness on secure coding.展开更多
文摘Innovation in products and services is seen by scholars,by specialized media in management,and by some managers as the main currency in modern economies.This is because it allows high average market profits,fame for innovators,or brand growth,for example.However,in practice,most managers still treat innovation as a secondary issue on their agendas.This problem results from the inability of market professionals to analyze people inside and outside their companies.It is not possible to develop innovative products in a systematic way without treating this point effectively.Moreover,in this process,creativity is a necessary,but not necessarily sufficient,condition to be fulfilled and requires behavioral transformation.In this context,it is believed that behavioral economics can make a sufficient contribution in the form of an analytical marketing tool by offering an analysis closer to human beings'reality,and,thus,allow a better understanding of people's behavior in the process of innovation in the market.
文摘Software vulnerabilities,when actively exploited by malicious parties,can lead to catastrophic consequences.Proper handling of software vulnerabilities is essential in the industrial context,particularly when the software is deployed in critical infrastructures.Therefore,several industrial standards mandate secure coding guidelines and industrial software developers’training,as software quality is a significant contributor to secure software.CyberSecurity Challenges(CSC)form a method that combines serious game techniques with cybersecurity and secure coding guidelines to raise secure coding awareness of software developers in the industry.These cybersecurity awareness events have been used with success in industrial environments.However,until now,these coached events took place on-site.In the present work,we briefly introduce cybersecurity challenges and propose a novel platform that allows these events to take place online.The introduced cybersecurity awareness platform,which the authors call Sifu,performs automatic assessment of challenges in compliance to secure coding guidelines,and uses an artificial intelligence method to provide players with solution-guiding hints.Furthermore,due to its characteristics,the Sifu platform allows for remote(online)learning,in times of social distancing.The CyberSecurity Challenges events based on the Sifu platform were evaluated during four online real-life CSC events.We report on three surveys showing that the Sifu platform’s CSC events are adequate to raise industry software developers awareness on secure coding.
