Cyber Security: All Fun and Games?
29 Apr 2026
Cyber Leaders Summit
Cyber Security Leaders Summit
While cyber security awareness is now important for almost everyone, it is often presented in a manner that struggles to engage a wider audience, with an uphill battle to promote a topic that they don’t necessarily want to know about in the first place. One means of addressing this is through gamifying the experience. However, while various cyber security games have been created, they sometimes require an investment of time that many people don’t have and/or need prior cyber knowledge to play or facilitate them. What may be preferable are short-form activities that can provide a foundation for later discussion. This session describes and demonstrates interactive activities that have been designed to provide such a provocation of interest, helping to make initial cyber engagement and awareness more fun. These include the fairground-style Hacker Whacker and the adversarial game of Cyber Defence Dice. The session will explain and demonstrate the games … and may even let you play them.
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