Escape Room experiences have become a popular team building experience at companies in metropolitan areas.
Work together, solve a series of mind-bending puzzles, and you escape the locked room.
Security awareness training escape room
Companies around the globe are also investing time and resources into security awareness training for their employees.
Now, there is a marriage of the two concepts.
A company called Living Security comes to you and creates an escape room experience based on cybersecurity principles.
"Security Awareness is immersed into the game, which includes aspects of the puzzles, the plot, as well as on the spot training and quizzes to help progress through the challenge," says an explanation on the company's website.
And NextGov just did a feature on a government agency that is going to make the cybersecurity escape room part of team training. The publication talked with the company's founders about how they came up with the idea.
“Over the last two decades, [training has been] PowerPoints and questions and answers and trivia-type things. And people cruise through it; they don’t pay attention to it,” Living Security co-founder Ashley Rose explained to NextGov. “So, what we identified was this enormous gap of trying to build a training program that was relevant and spoke to the user, to the people who are taking that training, rather than just checking a compliance box.”
The company says escape room themes can be customized around topics such as insider threats, corporate espionage, email threats, web threats, sabotage, DDoS, hacktivism, and other types of cybercrime.
Now the question is this: Will the cybersecurity escape room idea "escape" into the mainstream of security awareness training?
That part of the puzzle is still being solved.
