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What's next?
We currently work on a literature analysis about cheating and will continue to update this project site once we finished.
👇 Research Topic
Cheating is a pervasive security problem in the game industry. Today’s online models require special care with regard
to digital goods (“cheating a system”), but also enforcing fairness (“gaining unfair advantages”). While the first
may involve proper verification logic in, e.g., service endpoints, the second can require in-depth anti-cheat solutions
with custom code and further analysis.
In this study, we want to learn more about challenges and strategies in countering cheating. We
want to know where anti-cheating is embedded in the software development process and what priority it has. What kind of
cheating do developers experience, where are “entry points” for cheaters in games, how does anti-cheat differ
cross-platform, and how does the privacy of a player play a role in the design of solutions?
🤫 Confidentiality
We would like to assure you that we take utmost care to anonymize any confidential information that could be linked to
you, your projects, or your company. However, due to the nature of our research, we may need to ask specific questions
touching on confidential topics to gather relevant data. We do not use trick questions or intentionally confuse participants.
Once the write-up of our publication is completed, we will submit our work to scientific venues, who generally make
publications online available.
We value your participation in our study and are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and privacy of your
data. Thank you!
💡 Help us to help you! Likewise in our last publication, we aim to
generate insights and data that benefit the entire industry. Based on the findings, we develop recommendations for the
adoption of robust security practices in the game development process, which can and should be shared with the industry
at large.
We are a research team from the state-funded CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany. Our group
studies the intersection of computer security and privacy with human factors. We are particularly interested in
investigating end users, administrators, developers, and designers of computer systems and their interdependencies
with computer security and privacy mechanisms.
