THE FORMAT
Not a puzzle to solve.
A scene to sweep.
Where the Escape Game puts players in the role of investigators following a chain of clues, Beat the Clock puts them under immediate pressure: the threats are already there, the clock is already running, and every decision counts.
Players move through the room identifying and neutralising real-world security threats. Score climbs with every correct call. Fall for a trap — plug in that USB, click that link — and you lose five points. The gap between a good score and a great one is discipline, not just knowledge.
STANDALONE
Works for complete beginners
No prior security training required. The Initiation scenario is designed to be approachable — the story takes care of the context.
FOLLOW-UP
Even stronger after the Escape Game
Shifts the gear from discovery to application. Players who've encountered the threats once now act on that knowledge under pressure. The difference in performance is striking — and instructive.
ON REQUEST
Red team / blue team variation
One team plants the threats. A second team sweeps. Designed for teams with existing security knowledge who want to stress-test their instincts against each other.
Available on request: contact us to discuss format and prerequesites
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CURRENT SCENARIO
Beat the Clock: The Initiation
Your first week. Their favourite tradition.
Nobody told you it was coming.
It's your first week at the company. Your onboarding manager is "held up in a meeting." A colleague appears, makes themselves comfortable, and issues a challenge: they bet you won't survive 30 minutes alone in this office without making a rookie mistake.
What they don't tell you: the security team has been here first. The office has been deliberately seeded. USB drives on desks. A phishing email open on a screen. A password on a sticky note. Every threat you neutralise scores a point. Every trap you fall for costs you five.
Score high enough and your access badge is fast-tracked. The security team is watching the leaderboard. Fall for enough traps and you go on the Wall of Shame — and you're buying coffee for a month.
"You thought you were being hazed. You were being trained. And now you actually know what to look for."
THE PROP
The Wall of Shame
is real.
At the end of every Initiation session, scores are final and the Wall of Shame is revealed — a physical board recording the names of players who fell hardest for the traps.
It turns out that the threat of public — and entirely good-natured — humiliation is one of the most effective security awareness tools we've found. People remember what they fell for. They tell their colleagues. The conversation continues long after the session ends.
For Enterprise clients, we leave the board with you. For all other packages, we bring it and take it back.
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WALL OF SHAME
Müller, A.
plugged in USB
-5 pts
Schmidt, B.
clicked phishing link
-5 pts
Dupont, C.
used sticky note password
-5 pts
Jones, D.
plugged malicious USB + clicked link
-10 pts
☕ Jones, D. is buying coffee for a month.
THE FULL EXPERIENCE
From arrival to leaderboard.
Every Beat the Clock session follows a structured journey — before, during, and after the clock stops.
01
BEFORE
Preparatory briefing
Every participant receives a short briefing email — introducing security concepts without spoiling the scenario. First of three learning touchpoints included in every package.
DAY OF
The colleague appears
Our facilitator plays the colleague character — issuing the challenge, placing the bet, and leaving players alone in the seeded office. The scenario begins the moment they walk out.
02
DURING
30 minutes. Every decision counts.
Players work through the office combining clues from physical props, documents, and laptop puzzles. Each solved challenge reveals the next — until the final laptop, where they save the file. The room erupts. Every time.
03
AFTER
Wall of Shame reveal + expert debrief
Scores are final. The Wall of Shame is announced. Then a SecuriQuest expert leads a structured debrief — every threat, every trap, what was caught, what slipped through, and why it matters in a real office.
04
05
AFTER
Summary card + compliance documentation
Every participant leaves with a take-home summary of key behaviours. Enterprise clients receive audit-ready compliance documentation mapped to their chosen standard.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The same threats. Higher stakes.
Because this time, you should know better.
Every trap and every threat maps to a real attack vector — experienced under pressure, not read about in a slide deck.
🎣
Phishing recognition
Identifying malicious emails under time pressure — when the temptation to click fast is at its highest.
🔑
Password exposure
Sticky notes. Shared credentials. Written passwords. Spotting them
before an attacker — or a trap — does.
💾
Malicious USB devices
The classic trap. Worth five points off your score. Nobody falls for it twice.
🤝
Social engineering
Some threats are delivered by the colleague character in plain conversation. Listening carefully is part of the game.
🖥️
Unlocked screens
Recognising when someone left a vulnerability exposed — and the right way to handle it without making things worse.
⚖️
Judgment under pressure
The scoring system rewards caution over speed. A disciplined approach scores higher than a rushed sweep — every time.
WHO HAS PLAYED
Battle-tested across formats,
industries, and group sizes.
Beat the Clock's rotation format makes it ideal for large teams — multiple groups cycle through, unaware of what the previous group found.
Fast growing Insuretech
Summer Fest, Escape Game and Beat the Clock.
Both products were rolled out in open space in Festsaal Kreuzberg.
Engilsh, 50 participants.
Berlin, Germany
Large Aerospace Company
Escape game and Beat the Clock scenarios adapted to the client context. Risk based training, on-site in Toulouse.
French, 30 participants.
Toulouse, France
Itop
Tailored training for onboarding seminars including rotations through different scenarios.
English and French, 40 participants
Brussels, Belgium
Research with LAAS-CNRS
Testing of different riddles in scenarios in the concept of a Thesis with the LAAS and CNRS labs, with Kaino Security Bootcamp.
French and English, 70 participants.
Toulouse, France
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Research-backed, not just field-tested.
One of our founders co-authored academic research on gamification in information security awareness. Our approach has been studied and presented at RECI, with 70 participants in a structured research session. We don't just believe gamified training works — we've helped demonstrate it.
PRICING
Scale it to your group.
We adapt the threats and the time.
Session length and number of threats are adapted to your group size, experience level, and time available.
15-minute format available for experienced teams or large rotations
TEAM
600€
session
3000€
half a day
6000€
full day
INCLUDES
30 minutes session
Up to 10 participants
Travel to your location
Flyer with learnings summary
Choice of English, German or French
Preparatory training email to participants
GROWTH
900€
session
7200€
half a day
14.400€
full day
INCLUDES, additionally to TEAM
Your company's branding (logos, references)
Adaptation of 3 puzzles to your context
Basic report of compliance trails
Debrief session with a Security Export
ENTREPRISE
1400€
session
10.080€
half a day
20.160€
full day
INCLUDES, additionally to GROWTH
Preparation workshop
Detailed compliance report for ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, C5:2020, NIS2 or upon request
Booklet with learning summary
COMPLIANCE COVERAGE
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CURRENT SCENARIO
Same rigour. More adrenaline.
Designed to satisfy the security awareness training requirements of the frameworks your organisation is accountable to.
For CISOs and security managers: Our Enterprise package includes a written compliance report mapping your session(s) to the specific controls of your chosen standard — suitable for audit documentation and defensible to regulators.