Networks & working away
Public wifi, home routers, hotels, and what a VPN does and does not do.
Working somewhere else moves your device outside every network control the organization has, at exactly the moment you are distracted.
Would you get these right?
Real items, not examples written for a brochure — these are the same 7 questions the games draw on for this topic. Answer one and see what a player sees.
Free airport wifi with no password
Use your phone hotspot or the VPN
Use your phone hotspot or the VPN
An open network is shared with whoever else is on it, and the name is trivial to imitate. Your own hotspot removes the whole question.
RememberIf anyone can join it, anyone can watch it.
Joining "Free_WiFi_Guest" at the airport
Anyone can name a hotspot anything. An open network with a plausible name is trivial to stand up, and everything unencrypted on it is readable.
RememberTether to your phone, or use the VPN. Free is not the same as safe.
A home router still on its factory password
Change the admin password and take firmware updates
Change the admin password and take firmware updates
Default credentials are published, and home routers now sit on the same network as the laptop you work from.
RememberHome working made your router part of the perimeter.
6 games carry this topic
The same material, in whichever game your people will actually open. That is the whole design: the lesson is content, so it is not tied to one set of rules.
Threat & Defence Match
Match every risk to the habit that beats it.
Link each risk to the habit that defeats it, so the defence comes to mind with the threat.
Cyber Hygiene Run
Dodge the risky habit. Pick up the safe one.
Build the reflex to take the secure option and step around the risky one, at speed.
Spot the Threat
Judge it in the two seconds you actually get.
Tell a hostile message from a genuine one in the two seconds you actually get.
Threat Range
Report the threats. Let real mail through.
Judge before you act: report the real threats and leave legitimate messages alone.
Security Scenarios
What would you actually do?
Choose the right response to the security situations that actually come up at work.
Cyber Tambola
Dab the control that stops the call.
Know which control stops which attack, and know when a threat is not yours to act on.