The Cybersecurity Game Master: From Role Playing Games to Tabletop Exercises that Engage and Inspire

Associate Professor Roberto Dillon is an (ISC)² Professional Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and the author of six books published by A.K. Peters, CRC Press, and Springer. He holds a Master's and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, a MicroMasters Certificate in Cybersecurity from the Rochester Institute of Technology, and a Certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Harvard University.

Currently, he serves as the Academic Head for the School of Science and Technology at James Cook University's Singapore Campus, where he established a dedicated Cybersecurity degree program in 2020 and founded Southeast Asia's first permanent Computer Games Museum in 2013. Before joining JCU, he held academic positions in institutions such as The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Nanyang Technological University, and the DigiPen Institute of Technology.

A keen supporter and developer of FOSS (Free Open-Source Software), his research interests focus on serious games design and on different areas of cybersecurity such as UEBA (User and Entity Behavior Analytics), OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence), and threat intelligence. As a professor and educator, he is also very passionate about enhancing capacity building for the next generation of cybersecurity experts in Southeast Asia by designing new curricula and innovative gamified training tools. Feel free to reach out via his homepage: https: //robertodillon.nicepage.io