Social Engineering Awareness Games
Practise responding to impersonation, phone scams, suspicious requests and workplace manipulation in cybersecurity scenarios.
Questions about CyberPlay training
What is social engineering?
Social engineering manipulates people into granting access, sharing information or taking unsafe actions. It can happen through messages, phone calls or face-to-face requests.
Pause and verify identity through an established channel. Follow access and reporting procedures even when a request sounds urgent.
Warning signs to recognise
- Someone claims authority while asking you to bypass a normal check.
- A request depends on secrecy, urgency or personal pressure.
- An unfamiliar person asks for access, credentials or approval.
Practise with these games
- Find the Fake Login
A short investigative awareness game about sign-in pages: decide whether each login flow is legitimate, suspicious or malicious — by investigating, not by judging the logo. Twenty scenarios in four chapters, played from a 3D workstation.
- INSIDER
A multiplayer social-deduction game on floor 4 of Northwind Dynamics. Most players work through an ordinary day; one or two are running an attack chain — tailgating a badge door, dropping a USB stick, swapping a QR poster, changing a supplier’s bank details.
- Phishing Detective 3D
A first-person cybersecurity awareness game: work a suspected account compromise from the office floor, read the evidence, and file the case. A €47,850 supplier payment is frozen — reconstruct how the request reached Finance, and prove it.
- QR Hunt
Scanning a QR code is like clicking a link you cannot read first. Walk a modern office, check twelve codes across six rooms, and decide for each one: open it, ignore it, or report it.
- Secure Your Home Office
You are about to start work from home on company systems. Walk one open-plan flat and fix what a neighbour, a family member or a rushed morning could turn into a real problem — about a dozen of them each session, drawn from a pool of eighteen, different every time you play.
- Security Tower Defense
Attacks walk across your office floor toward the CORE DATA VAULT. Put the right protection in their way — no single one stops everything. Fifteen security controls, twelve attack types and eighteen build slots on one floor, fifteen authored rounds, then procedurally generated ones forever.
- The Social Engineer
You are Jordan Hale, Operations Analyst on the twelfth floor. People will ask for help, and some of them should have it. One workday from 09:00 to 16:45 puts ten or eleven requests at the badge door, the desk, the printer and the phone — the score is not how suspicious you were, it is how well you checked.
Related cybersecurity topics
- Phishing Awareness Games
Practise spotting deceptive messages, suspicious sign-in pages and payment requests with free phishing awareness games.
- QR Phishing Awareness Games
Learn to check QR-code destinations and recognise quishing. Practise inspecting codes and choosing when to open, ignore or report them.
- Ransomware Awareness & Response Games
Explore ransomware decisions through interactive games covering suspicious attachments, containment, reporting and recovery planning.
- Password & Account Security Games
Learn about unique passwords, password managers, multifactor authentication and fake login pages through interactive security games.
- Backup & Recovery Awareness Games
Practise backup and recovery decisions. Explore the difference between synchronising files and maintaining recoverable copies.
- Workplace Physical Security Games
Practise clean-desk decisions, screen locking, badge handling and visitor checks in interactive office security games.
- Remote Work Cybersecurity Games
Explore home-office cybersecurity scenarios covering work devices, approved storage, router settings and unexpected phone requests.
- Wi-Fi Security Awareness Games
Practise choosing a wireless network and responding to suspicious captive portals, lookalike access points and certificate warnings.