Security starts with people.
So does our method.
We founded SecuriQuest because we lived the problem ourselves. Years working in information security taught us one uncomfortable truth: most training doesn't change behaviour — it changes compliance status. We built SecuriQuest to fix that — not with better slides, but with a fundamentally different way of thinking about security culture.
The scale of the problem
of breaches involve human error
Not software vulnerabilities. Not misconfigurations. People — making the same mistakes that better training could have prevented.
still lack skills after training
The majority of corporate security training produces compliance records, not capable people. The content is forgotten within days.
find their training unengaging
Employees know security matters. They just don't believe a 45-minute e-learning module will help them when a real attack comes.
Compliance is the floor, not the ceiling.
Most security awareness programmes are designed to satisfy an auditor. Ours are designed to change a person.
There is a meaningful difference between an employee who has completed their annual training and ticked a box — and one who pauses before plugging in a USB drive they found in the car park. The first protects your organisation on paper. The second protects it in practice.
We believe that the goal of security awareness is not to inform people once a year. It is to build a reflexive, lasting security culture — one where secure behaviour becomes a professional habit, not an annual obligation.
"We don't measure success by completion rates. We measure it by what people do differently the week after."
People learn by doing.
They remember by feeling.
This isn't a hunch — it's what decades of learning science consistently show. Passive exposure to information produces recognition. It rarely produces behaviour change. Active problem-solving under realistic conditions produces both. Our formats are built on four principles, each grounded in published research.
Active recall over passive exposure
Participants don't watch a video about phishing — they encounter a realistic phishing attempt and must reason through it under pressure. Active problem-solving produces retention that passive learning cannot match.
Stress encodes memory
The competitive, time-pressured format creates mild stress — the kind that sharpens attention and strengthens memory consolidation. Participants remember their session months later because of how it felt, not just what it taught.
Peer learning outlasts individual training
Working together to solve a problem creates shared understanding and shared language. Teams continue discussing security topics after the session. Culture change happens through conversation — we observe this consistently across every client.
Safe failure, real learning
The game creates a safe space to fail — and to learn from failure — without real-world consequences. Participants can make a mistake and immediately understand why it matters. This experiential loop transfers more reliably to daily behaviour than theoretical instruction.
We don't sell training sessions.
We build security programmes.
A single escape game session is a powerful experience. But a single experience is not a programme.
Every client engagement at SecuriQuest begins with a conversation about where you are today, where you need to be, and what the realistic path looks like between those two points. That might mean starting with a gamified session to build awareness and generate momentum. It might mean identifying the highest-risk teams first. It might mean mapping your training requirements against NIS2, ISO 27001, or your sector's specific obligations.
What it never means is deploying the same off-the-shelf module to every employee and calling it done.
We are a small, expert team. We choose to work closely with the organisations we partner with — not to scale endlessly, but to make a genuine difference. When you work with SecuriQuest, you work with the people who built our programmes, not a reseller.
Meet the team →Programme stages
Start with awareness
A gamified session builds momentum, generates conversation, and shows your team that security can be worth their time.
Target the highest-risk groups
We identify the departments or roles most exposed and tailor scenarios to their specific threat landscape.
Map to your compliance obligations
NIS2, ISO 27001, SOC 2, C5:2020 — we build documentation that satisfies auditors without making that the goal.
Measure and sustain
Long-term programmes include follow-up sessions, phishing simulations, and ongoing support to measure and reinforce behaviour change.
Built by practitioners,
not by product managers.
SecuriQuest was founded in 2025 by three people who had spent years in information security — and years being frustrated by the same thing: organisations investing in training that didn't work.
We had seen the consequences of that gap firsthand. We had also seen what happened when training was done well — when people genuinely understood the risks they faced and felt equipped to respond to them.
We founded SecuriQuest to bring that experience into companies across Germany, France, Switzerland, and Austria — in German, French, and English — with the conviction that security culture is achievable for any organisation willing to invest in its people, not just its tools.
Meet the team →Training that satisfies auditors
and employees.
SecuriQuest programmes are designed to meet the security awareness training requirements of the frameworks your organisation is accountable to.
For CISOs and security managers: Our Enterprise engagements include audit-ready documentation mapping your training to the specific controls of your chosen standard — so your security awareness programme is not just effective, but defensible.
Frequently asked questions
How is SecuriQuest different from e-learning or slide-based training?
E-learning and slide decks ask employees to absorb information passively. SecuriQuest puts your team in a realistic security scenario where they have to act, make decisions, and experience consequences — all in a safe environment. Decades of learning science show this kind of active, stress-encoded experience produces far more durable recall than passive instruction.
Does the training count towards NIS2, ISO 27001, or SOC 2 compliance?
Yes. SecuriQuest sessions are designed to satisfy the security awareness training requirements in NIS2 (Article 21), ISO 27001 (Annex A, control A.6.3), and SOC 2 (CC9.2). We can provide a session summary and participant list suitable for auditor documentation.
How long does a typical session take?
Each game session runs 30 minutes, including a 5-minute briefing and debrief. SecuriQuest can run multiple back-to-back sessions in a single visit. Setup and teardown take approximately 15 minutes and are handled entirely by the SecuriQuest team — no preparation required from your side.
What is the evidence that this approach actually works?
SecuriQuest's methodology is grounded in peer-reviewed research. A 2019 IEEE Security & Privacy paper co-authored by our founding team showed that escape-room format significantly increases security knowledge retention. Meta-analyses by Sitzmann (2011) and Wouters et al. (2013) confirm that simulation-based games consistently outperform conventional instruction for knowledge acquisition and retention. See our Research page for full citations.
Can SecuriQuest build a long-term training programme, not just a one-off session?
Absolutely. A single session is a powerful starting point, but a real programme maps to your compliance obligations, targets your highest-risk groups, and tracks improvement over time. SecuriQuest works with clients on structured programmes combining multiple game formats, phishing simulations, and periodic follow-up sessions.
Ready to think about security differently?
Let's start with a conversation. Tell us where you are, and we'll tell you honestly what we think would help.