# From Cyber-Security Deception To Manipulation and Gratification Through Gamification

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a gamified deception platform that uses interactive narratives to engage malicious users, aiming to enhance cyber-defense by diverting attackers from critical systems.

## Contribution

It presents a novel platform combining gamification, narrative, and deception to actively engage and manipulate attackers, surpassing static deception methods.

## Key findings

- Enhanced attacker engagement through gamification.
- Effective diversion of malicious users from key assets.
- Increased complexity of deception interactions.

## Abstract

With the ever growing networking capabilities and services offered to users, attack surfaces have been increasing exponentially, additionally, the intricacy of network architectures has increased the complexity of cyber-defenses, to this end, the use of deception has recently been trending both in academia and industry. Deception enables to create proactive defense systems, luring attackers in order to better defend the systems at hand. Current applications of deception, only rely on static, or low interactive environments. In this paper we present a platform that combines human-computer-interaction, analytics, gamification and deception to lure malicious users into selected traps while piquing their interests. Furthermore we analyse the interactive deceptive aspects of the platform through the addition of a narrative, further engaging malicious users into following a predefined path and deflecting attacks from key network systems.