Secured Mind
board game-based cyber resilience training system
Training System
Countering Social Engineering
Secured Mind training based on a serious board game provides a comprehensive solution to address human cyber risk and mitigate human-related breaches.
The gamified process, complete with practice, feedback, and teamwork, serves as the linchpin for acquiring and reinforcing both knowledge («what to do») and the practical skill («how to do it») to counter social engineering.
Guided by the trainer, two teams cultivate skills to identify and counteract social engineering techniques frequently employed in the onset of cyberattacks.
What We Use
Supervised Sessions With Props
Serious games, a proven means of behaviour correction, minimize explanations allowing trainees to engage in an increasingly sophisticated board game.
On the way to securing their minds, the teams are accompanied by the Game Master who explains social engineering tricks and influence techniques and checks answers.
7 decks of cards to master
From basic influence techniques to sophisticated cyber attacks
You train to behave correctly under cyberattacks that start from psychological manipulation:
– Learn and practice what you learned right away
– Team with your peers to discuss, support, and instruct
– Practice defence and attack techniques under real-life pressure
Customised avatars and decks
Advanced options for large companies
Go beyond the standard training:
– Get attack scenario cards customised for your domain and threat landscape
– Personalise avatars to counteract targeted attacks more effectively
– Prepare your own experts with “Train the Trainers” course
Tailored team trainings
Two teams of 3-6 players; 60-90 minute per a phase
Most beneficial for companies that:
– Consider data and information their most valuable asset
– Are large enough to employ full-time cybersecurity staff
– Carry out or are ready for cybersecurity awareness programmes.
Game Money to make bets
Capitalise on correct guesses, bets, and scenarios
Learn and have fun with gamified interactive process:
— Earn Game Money when right and lose when wrong
— Overcome challenges, cooperate and compete in teams
— Measure your manipulation resistance by your earnings
How It Works
Learning and Applying Manipulation Resistance
Secured Mind is a manipulation-resistance game of social deduction for two teams of 2-6 players.
You build resistance by training not just by getting knowledge: you have to practice right things, explain to and share experience with other people.
Stage 1: Learn it
Players learn social engineering techniques. For better understanding, they use the Starting Cards with well-known situations.
Stage 2: Name it
To earn game money, players identify and name social engineering techniques used in various scenarios described in the Influence Cards.
Stage 3: Fight it
The teams try to identify social engineering techniques used in various scenarios described in cards and offer their countermeasures.
Stage 4: Invent, adjust
The teams create social engineering attacks and countermeasures scenarios, including tailored to specific avatars.
What's up
Our News
March 5, 2024
Meet us at LeiraCon Talks 2024
On March 16, we shall discuss the challenges of creating board games for modern societies at LeiriaTalks event.
Together with Games and Social Impact Media Research Lab (GLOW) from Lusófona University, LeiriaTalks will promote a broad social role of board games.
March 14, 2024
Cyber security seminar
Funchal. Our partner ApusTrust holds the Cybersecurity and Data Protection in Practice workshop discussing cybersecurity challenges and presenting perspectives on the topic.
Speakers and panelists represent the government, academia and private businesses of Madeira.