Educating users on best practices in cybersecurity is critical, yet traditional training methods often fail to engage learners or build practical skills. This workshop presents an innovative approach: a series of interactive cybersecurity mini-games designed to take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes per mini-game, teaching essential skills in user management, firewall configuration, network traffic analysis, vulnerability patching, file backups, malware detection, and more.

Participants will face a persistent gremlin “ShadowShell” adversary who tests their defenses through scenario-based tasks. The mini-games come in 3 levels of difficulty, beginner, intermediate, and advanced.

By immersing players in short scenario-based tasks, the workshop promotes strategic thinking and hands-on problem-solving in a low-pressure environment while breaking up large, complex tasks into manageable bite-size chunks.