With cyberattacks on the rise, employee vigilance has become a critical line of defence for any company. But how do you raise awareness of these growing risks effectively, when teams are already pulled in a dozen directions?
At Arcane Experience, we’re convinced that play is an excellent channel for serious messages: it gets everyone involved, puts everyone on the same level and drives engagement through a lighter tone.
Through interactive scenarios, we sharpen digital reflexes and strengthen bonds within teams at the same time. How? Read on.
What’s at stake for companies?
Faced with mounting cyber threats, cybersecurity is a critical issue for every company. The number of cyberattacks grows each year and the impact can be catastrophic: stolen confidential data, ransom demands, operations at a standstill, reputational damage, huge leaks of customer or employee data, and more.
The European CERT network (CERT-EU) has recorded an average 72% increase in the number ofsecurity incidents reported each year across the continent.
In France, the Cybermalveillance.gouv.fr barometer counts more than a hundred attacks on companies every week. Businesses are a prime target: they’re seen as lucrative prey, holding valuable data that can be sold on the Dark Web.
Beyond the financial and legal risks, companies must also meet numerous legal obligations around data protection. Without the right security measures in place, they face heavy penalties from regulators such as the French CNIL. Compliance with regulations, GDPR first among them, is therefore essential.
In this context, stronger cybersecurity depends on raising awareness and building a sense of responsibility among employees, who are often the weak link when an attack comes.
One click on a suspicious link or the careless sharing of a password can be enough to trigger a disaster. Every company needs to heighten employee vigilance around these risks.
How can you raise awareness of cyber threats effectively?
To build cybersecurity awareness across your teams, play is a powerful tool. More engaging than standard training sessions or e-learning modules, it makes the message stick.
At Arcane Experience, we’ve designed a game dedicated to this very subject: “ Le Cyber Quiz ”. Built around an interactive quiz, it puts participants through a series of real-world scenarios centred on data protection.
Hosted with humour and energy by a “ Game Master ”, the game alternates offbeat sketches with question-and-answer rounds, drawing the audience step by step into the realities of cybersecurity. Themes covered include:
- Phishing,
- Sensitive data,
- Cybersecurity on the move,
- Security tools
Le Cyber Quiz is an excellent way to raise cybersecurity awareness among employees. The game-based approach makes the subject easy to grasp, while bringing teams together around a genuinely shared moment.
The sketches, performed by professional actors, also give shape and words to fears participants may hold, helping to break down any barriers that still surround the topic.
Many companies already use this game to train their people on these risks and make them active players in their own day-to-day cybersecurity. The payoff in terms of collective awareness is considerable.
What are the benefits?
Companies are investing in more original ways to get the cyber-threat message across for a simple reason: conventional solutions are losing their edge. A playful awareness-raising activity like the Cyber Show delivers real benefits when it comes to embedding good cybersecurity habits across teams.
Stronger digital habits
A playful experience drops employees into a world of realistic scenarios, without the damage of a real attack. They grasp what’s at stake and build the right digital reflexes naturally through play: handling emails and attachments with care, checking requests for sensitive information, securing devices and networks, and more.
Sharper eye for manipulation attempts
The game’s scenarios sharpen participants’ ability to spot warning signs: fraudulent websites, suspicious data requests, fake technicians, and so on. They build protective habits of vigilance. Your employees absorb the key messages and take an active part in everyday digital vigilance.
Greater respect for confidentiality
The game underlines the need to protect internal company data . Employees become aware of the risks of casually disclosing strategic information or confidential files. And of the care needed when reading confidential or sensitive material in public places.
Cohesion and collective energy
Sharing this playful, unexpected moment around cybersecurity clearly strengthens team cohesion and energises interaction within teams, in a genuinely positive spirit.
Letting go and getting creative
The game frees up conversation, humour and creativity. It brings out the child in every adult, contributing to workplace wellbeing. Serious messages land all the better when the form is fun.
Why trust Arcane Experience games to raise awareness across your teams?
At Arcane Experience, cybersecurity awareness is part of our DNA as an agency specialising in games and playful sessions with a clear learning purpose.
Drawing on our experience designing team building since 2015, we know exactly how powerful play can be when it comes to delivering serious messages.
Retention and engagement soar when the format is playful. The many companies we work with each year are proof that our methods deliver.
Our game designers created this interactive simulation concept to be highly immersive and offbeat, immersing participants in real cybersecurity challenges.
Our game masters then bring the energy, keeping teams on the edge of their seats and pulling them into the world of today’s films and series.
But beyond this proven creative and theatrical craft, we’re equally rigorous on substance. We work hand in hand with cybersecurity experts to ensure the content delivered during Le Cyber Quiz is accurate and constantly up to date.
Our CSR commitment also leads us to play an active role in spreading good digital practice across companies. Raising employee awareness of online risks means protecting the common good and building a more ethical professional world.
