Dungeons & Dragons: The security tool you
summary
Claims that tabletop role‑playing actually increases engagement and builds muscle memory for incident response, cites a meta‑study in Frontiers in Psychology, and shows concrete exercises that reveal surprising empathy shifts when roles flip. Uses Dungeons & Dragons mechanics to enforce limited actions and randomness, and demonstrates the open-source HackBack framework (used heavily for IR, soonish publicly available) plus a live community at discord.gg/hackback and examples of scalable red/blue and product‑integrated scenarios.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04Speakers' backgrounds
- 2:52Traditional training problems
- 5:44Science behind game-based learning
- 7:33Role-playing games for learning
- 10:48Introducing Hackback framework
- 13:43Teamwork and incident response
- 15:50Beyond incident response
- 17:37Resources and involvement
- 18:19Q&A
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