Enhancing Cybersecurity Awareness Through Gamification; The Fix Is In: An Industry Strategy for the Right to Repair 89 views

In complex systems, system security may come at a high cost to user control. This tradeoff must be managed in ways that limit security vulnerabilities without excessively impeding users’ legitimate needs. Conventional security training often fails to foster genuine user engagement or a practical understanding of threats, leaving individuals and organizations vulnerable. In a technical project, this gap was addressed by gamifying core cybersecurity principles, translating them into interactive, hands-on learning experiences. The resulting suite of mini-games and exercises is a dynamic educational tool that incorporates phishing and suspicious links identification and defensive password creation. With more expansions in breadth of topics covered, it may be a suitable supplement to institutional training programs. By making security principles more accessible, the games may contribute to a more security conscious culture. The right to repair movement is a response to the difficulty and expense of consumer product repairs. Manufacturers’ response has combined deterrence, controlled access, and legislative sabotage. The strategy is intended to appease public demand while forestalling binding regulation, and ultimately to define the right to repair in terms favorable to manufacturers. Understanding this strategy is a first step toward dismantling it in favor of fair, accessible, and sustainable repairability standards.

BS (Bachelor of Science)

Right to Repair; R2R; repair; cybersecurity

School of Engineering and Applied Science Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Technical Advisor: Mark Sherriff STS Advisor: Peter Norton Technical Team Members: Spencer Cook, Andy Li, Iuri Vintonyak, Andy Wang

English

2025-12-12