Elevation of Privilege - Yes we made a card game for developers!

Welcome to the Tuesday article spotlight.

Elevation of Privilege (abbreviated "EoP") is a card game developed by Adam Shostack with assistance from many patient Microsoft developers, and it is designed to provide a fun and educational introduction to the concepts and practice of Threat Modeling.

Take a look at this great Wiki article from Alun Jones, Security MVP:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/285.elevation-of-privilege-the-game.aspx

Here's the strategy of EoP:

 

This is by far my favorite sentence in this article: "Cheating is encouraged."

 

Now that's a game! =^)

 

Has anyone played the game?

What kind of card game for IT Pros or Devs would you want to see?

 

Thanks!

   - Ninja Ed (Blog, Twitter, Wiki, Profile)