30th October 2025
The CyberSec Game Challenge - Winners Announced
This year marked the launch of the CyberSec Game Challenge 2025, an initiative to uncover new talent and connect them with experienced specialists in security, training, organisational dynamics, neuroscience and game design. The aim was to find serious games that deliver useful outcomes in cybersecurity, in the time it takes to hold a meeting, and for about the cost of a deck of cards - without losing the sense of fun.
The competition attracted 16 entries from across the community. These games aren’t intended as silver bullets, but they are practical and affordable tools that help teams understand difficult problems and talk about them more openly. When people laugh, debate and consider one another’s perspectives, they build shared understanding. In this way, the games become bridges between roles, helping organisations make real progress on topics like security and privacy.
The imagination and practical thinking shown in this first year has been inspiring, and we are excited to continue supporting game-based learning as a way to strengthen cybersecurity capability across the community.
Meet the 2025 winners!
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A fast, cooperative game that helps teams build practical threat-modelling skills. Engineers work together to secure vulnerable components before attacks hit. New components, attacks and events arrive quickly, demanding sharp decisions and shared priorities.
The judges were impressed by its clarity, replayability and ability to reinforce core threat modelling ideas through quick gameplay.
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A playful and totally different take on cyber education, this time centred on application privacy. Players combine App, Feature and Data cards to build product scenarios, then pitch and judge how “cringe” they feel. Players feel the impact of privacy decisions, shifting their mindset through emotional, contextual awareness.
An really clever take on Privacy sparking insight through humour, surprise and social interaction.
Both winning teams have received a retail contract with CyberSec Games along with production support to help develop their ideas into prototypes and commercial products.
Huge thanks to our judging panel!
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Devika Gibbs: Game Maker, Detail Nerd, and Passionate about Playful Security Change.
