Advancements in technology, including the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution, have enabled individuals and businesses to use systems and devices that connect, exchange data, and provide real-time information from far and near. Despite that, this interconnectivity and data sharing between systems and devices over the internet poses security and privacy risks as threat actors can intercept, steal, and use owners’ data for nefarious purposes. This paper discusses ’MalAware’, a ‘Malware Awareness Education’ and incident response (IR) scenario-based tabletop exercise and card game for malware threat mitigation training. It introduces the importance of incident management, highlights the dangers posed by malware for connected systems, and outlines the role of tabletop games and exercises in helping businesses mature their malware incident response capabilities. The study discusses the design of MalAware and summarises the results of 2 pilots undertaken to assess the concept, maintaining that the results highlighted the value of ‘MalAware’ as an essential tool to help students and staff master how to mitigate security threats caused by malware. It argues that MalAware can assist businesses in their IR preparedness endeavors, enabling incident management teams to review plans and processes to ensure they are fit for purpose. It enables staff to leverage scenario-based and simulated security breach examples, including role-play, to establish appropriate malware defences. MalAware’s practical hands-on exercises can assist trainees in gaining essential malware and other threat mitigation skills, helping to protect the security and privacy of IoTs.
Cloud computing in today's computing environment plays a vital role, by providing efficient and scalable computation based on pay per use model. To make computing more reliable and efficient, it must be efficient, and high resources utilized. To improve resource utilization and efficiency in cloud, task scheduling and resource allocation plays a critical role. Many researchers have proposed algorithms to maximize the throughput and resource utilization taking into consideration heterogeneous cloud environments. This work proposes an algorithm using DBSCAN (Density-based spatial clustering) for task scheduling to achieve high efficiency. The proposed DBScan-based task scheduling algorithm aims to improve user task quality of service and improve performance in terms of execution time, average start time and finish time. The experiment result shows proposed model outperforms existing ACO and PSO with 13% improvement in execution time, 49% improvement in average start time and average finish time. The experimental results are compared with existing ACO and PSO algorithms for task scheduling.

