I stumbled upon this resource from the United States Navy Post Graduate school by limiting my Google search to only yield flash files. Given how important security is to any organizations network, I strongly recommend a visit. The learning resources are described in this manner:

• CyberCIEGE enhances information assurance education and training through the use of computer gaming techniques such as those employed in SimCity™. In the CyberCIEGE virtual world, users spend virtual money to operate and defend their networks, and can watch the consequences of their choices, while under attack.

You will find ten brief tutorials which describe in an animated manner cyber attacks ranging from malicious software to why cryptography is often necessary. In addition, a gaming simulation developed by the USN is available free of charge to education institutions. Anyone may download an evaluation copy of the cyber attack simulation game. This resource will be added to the software engineering section of the engineering learning wiki.

Time to leave my Winter sports and return to engineering. Recently I posted how I disagreed with Thomas Friedman … the world is not flat … instead I posted that it is a "Hodge Podge World" (includes my video presentation). I may have disagreed with Friedman in this arena, but his arguments from his recent Op-Ed piece in the N.Y. Times have a lot of merit. He states:

"You want to spend $20 billion of taxpayer money creating jobs? Fine.
Call up the top 20 venture capital firms in America, which are short of
cash today because their partners — university endowments and pension
funds — are tapped out, and make them this offer: The U.S. Treasury
will give you each up to $1 billion to fund the best venture capital
ideas that have come your way. If they go bust, we all lose. If any of
them turns out to be the next Microsoft or Intel, taxpayers will give
you 20 percent of the investors’ upside and keep 80 percent for
themselves.

If we are going to be spending billions of taxpayer
dollars, it can’t only be on office-decorating bankers, over-leveraged
home speculators and auto executives who year after year spent more
energy resisting changes and lobbying Washington than leading change
and beating Toyota."

I think Mr. Friedman makes a lot of sense. Read his entire column.