If you happen to haven’t heard of Roblox, you in all probability don’t have youngsters like me. Roblox is an internet digital world/metaverse that has been round since 2006 that permits folks to play with others and is tremendous standard with younger folks. We all know from analysis accomplished at Berkeley that gamification generally is a good technique to get college students engaged with cybersecurity.
So the workforce right here at KnowBe4 dreamed up and created a recreation of digital cats vs. digital mice with phishing emails, VPNs, ransomware and extra, all on the Roblox platform. The thought is that you simply get randomly divided into groups of cats and mice. The mice are the hackers and the cats are the defenders – they will even do Cat Consciousness Coaching (CAT) to scale back their threat. We hope this recreation will enhance consciousness of cyber threats and perhaps encourage extra college students to think about a profession in cybersecurity. This recreation is out there without cost as a part of our KnowBe4 Youngsters’s Interactive Cybersecurity Exercise Equipment.
Youngsters’s Interactive Cybersecurity Exercise Equipment
The Youngsters’s Interactive Cybersecurity Exercise Equipment is a set of free sources designed to teach youngsters from 5 to fifteen years previous by interactive supplies and interesting actions, making the advanced world of on-line safety accessible and comprehensible. It has numerous sources that had been created in partnership with dad and mom and schooling professionals and contains exercise kits, a video and video games, all geared toward equipping folks with the information and abilities wanted to guard themselves from cyber assaults.
Whether or not you’re a instructor/educator or a involved father or mother educating your loved ones, the Cybersecurity Exercise Equipment from KnowBe4 is designed to be a useful instrument to boost consciousness about cyber threats and provides sensible abilities to cope with them.
There are three video games which can be a part of this package. The primary one is Password Zapper, the place you blast by area, strengthening your password abilities as you goal weak passwords and protect robust ones on this retro arcade-style shooter recreation. One other recreation is a spin-off of one in every of our hottest video games on the KnowBe4 platform for adults, Spot the Phish: Child’s Version, a concise module explaining and exemplifying phishing in relatable situations in a enjoyable recreation format.
The Roblox Recreation “Hack-A-Cat” is simply the newest version to this rising set of sources that we make out there fully without cost to assist colleges and younger folks. You may entry the sport by looking out “KnowBe4” within the Roblox platform or instantly linked by the package (really useful as it’s simpler than the Roblox search).
Video games as Efficient Studying Instruments
We all know video games may be efficient instruments for all ages, and with our platform, we now have over 28 video games which can be a part of our safety consciousness coaching library with much more at the moment in improvement. We plan on launching the primary recreation to handle compliance incident reporting within the subsequent few months as a part of the Compliance Plus library. We’re additionally exhausting at work on a recreation based mostly on one in every of our hottest video collection on the platform. Keep tuned for extra bulletins on that entrance!
With that in thoughts, we determined to get our KnowBe4 Cybersecurity consultants to check out the Hac-A-Cat Roblox recreation and play the sport collectively. I joined them, and the end result was numerous enjoyable. You may test it out right here:
We imagine strongly within the energy of video games and can be including extra. If you need to see among the safety and compliance video games we now have on the platform, please attain out to us and we can be comfortable to get you a demo. Within the meantime, please use these free sources and share them with your mates, household, and coworkers.