Traditional cybersecurity awareness training can establish essential knowledge, but maintaining employee attention and reinforcing that knowledge over time can be challenging.
S-Play, the gamified learning solution within the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite (SBCS), transforms cybersecurity awareness into an interactive learning experience through security games, challenges and decision-based activities.
Employees actively apply what they know, make security decisions and reinforce important cybersecurity concepts in a format designed to encourage participation and make learning memorable.
For organisations, S-Play provides a structured way to select, schedule, deliver and monitor gamified security awareness campaigns across the workforce.
Play. Learn. Reinforce Secure Behaviour.
Creating security awareness is only the beginning. Employees also need opportunities to apply what they know.
They are expected to recognise suspicious communications, protect information, make secure decisions and respond appropriately when something doesn't look right. When awareness relies entirely on passive learning, important concepts can become easier to forget.
Gamified cybersecurity training introduces a more active learning experience.
Instead of only reading or watching security content, employees interact with challenges, answer questions, solve problems and make decisions based on cybersecurity scenarios.
This creates opportunities to:
The objective isn't to turn cybersecurity into entertainment. It is to use game-based learning to make security awareness more participative, memorable and practical.
S-Play brings gamification into cybersecurity awareness training, giving organisations another way to reinforce important security concepts throughout the employee learning journey.
Through interactive security games and challenges, employees can revisit cybersecurity concepts in a format that encourages active participation rather than passive content consumption.
S-Play can be used alongside foundational security awareness training, phishing simulations, microlearning and other awareness activities to introduce additional engagement and reinforcement throughout the year.
For administrators, campaigns can be targeted to relevant employee groups, scheduled according to the organisation's awareness calendar and monitored after launch.
Learn the concept. Play the challenge. Reinforce the behaviour.
S-Play makes it straightforward to incorporate cybersecurity games for employees into an organisation's wider security awareness programme.
Choose from the available library of interactive security awareness games based on the cybersecurity concepts and behaviours you want to reinforce. Different game formats provide different ways for employees to apply, revisit and test their security knowledge.
Deploy campaigns across the organisation or target specific departments, locations or custom user groups. This allows organisations to align gamified learning with different workforce populations and awareness initiatives.
Launch campaigns immediately or schedule them for a future date as part of an ongoing security awareness programme. Administrators can plan awareness activities in advance, ensuring continuous employee engagement without interrupting daily business operations.
Review the selected game, assigned users and campaign configuration before launch. Once confirmed, launch the campaign and monitor employee participation and campaign progress.
S-Play includes a growing collection of cybersecurity awareness games designed to reinforce security knowledge through different forms of interaction.
Make the Security Decision
A fast-paced decision-making game where employees identify secure and insecure actions across different situations.
Learners must decide how to respond, with immediate feedback reinforcing the appropriate security behaviour.
Make the Right Choice to Progress
A scenario-driven security challenge where employees encounter situations requiring them to apply their cybersecurity knowledge and make informed decisions.
Progress depends on the choices learners make, encouraging them to think about how security principles apply in practice.
Test What Employees Remember
A cybersecurity-themed crossword designed to reinforce terminology, concepts and security knowledge through recall.
The puzzle format gives employees a lighter way to revisit previously learned security concepts while testing what they remember.
Race Against Time to Protect the Future
A fast-paced security awareness game where employees travel back in time and answer questions across privacy, security and compliance topics.
Learners must make the right choices as they progress, reinforcing key concepts and helping build stronger security awareness through quick, interactive challenges.
S-Play uses different game mechanics to create active learning experiences around cybersecurity.
Employees make choices rather than simply being shown the correct answer.
Learners can understand whether a decision was appropriate while they are actively engaged with the concept.
Security concepts can be placed within situations that require employees to think about how they would respond.
Games can revisit cybersecurity concepts employees have encountered through other awareness activities.
Individual activities provide another way to reinforce awareness without requiring employees to repeatedly complete lengthy courses.
Games can be incorporated into ongoing awareness campaigns, creating additional security touchpoints throughout the year.
Gamified learning should be engaging for employees while still giving administrators visibility into campaign activity.
S-Play allows organisations to monitor gamified security awareness campaigns and employee participation, helping teams understand how learning activities are progressing across the workforce.
For organisations using the wider SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite, S-Play activity can contribute to broader awareness and behavioural visibility through S-Metrics.
This helps organisations treat gamified learning as part of a measurable security awareness programme rather than an isolated employee activity.
Cybersecurity affects employees across roles, departments and levels of technical knowledge.
S-Play provides an approachable way for different employee populations to actively engage with security concepts.
Reinforce foundational security knowledge after initial onboarding and awareness training.
Give employees an interactive way to revisit and apply everyday cybersecurity concepts.
Reinforce security decision-making among employees responsible for teams, information and business decisions.
Keep employees engaged with security awareness regardless of where they work.
S-Play gives the teams responsible for security awareness another way to keep employees engaged beyond formal training.
Reinforce important cyber risks through interactive campaigns and practical security challenges.
Complement existing security and compliance awareness initiatives with ongoing employee engagement.
Introduce gamification into the learning experience and diversify how cybersecurity concepts are reinforced.
Incorporate engaging security-awareness activities into broader employee learning and communication initiatives.
Support an organisational culture where cybersecurity remains visible, participative and relevant throughout the year.
As part of the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite, continuous learning, reinforcement, engagement, testing and measurement work together to help organisations build stronger security behaviours.
Build foundational cybersecurity and privacy knowledge.
Keep important security concepts fresh through continuous microlearning.
Give employees practical experience recognising realistic phishing threats.
Reinforce cybersecurity concepts through interactive and gamified learning.
Keep security visible through ongoing awareness campaigns and visual nudges.
Bring awareness and behavioural data together to understand programme performance.
Integrate security awareness with the organisation's wider learning and technology ecosystem.
Together, these solutions create a continuous cycle of learning, testing, reinforcement and measurement.
Move beyond passive awareness programmes by engaging employees through interactive games that encourage participation, critical thinking, and practical application of cybersecurity concepts.
Use different formats - including decision-based games, scenario challenges and knowledge puzzles, to reinforce cybersecurity concepts in different ways.
Gamified learning reinforces key security topics through repeated interaction and active participation, helping employees remember and apply secure behaviours more effectively.
Select games, target relevant users, schedule campaigns and manage gamified awareness activities through a structured campaign workflow.
Introduce interactive learning at different points throughout the year rather than relying exclusively on one-time awareness events.
By making cybersecurity learning enjoyable and accessible, S-Play encourages regular participation and helps organisations build long-term security-conscious behaviours across the workforce.
| Traditional Approach | S-Play Gamified Learning |
|---|---|
| Primarily passive learning | Active participation |
| Longer learning experiences | Short, focused game-based activities |
| Limited learner interaction | Interactive challenges and decision-making |
| Often centred around scheduled training | Can support ongoing reinforcement |
| Knowledge consumption | Knowledge application and reinforcement |
| Completion-focused | Engagement-focused |
Answers to common questions about S-Play and gamified security awareness training.
Gamified security awareness training uses game mechanics, interactive challenges, scenarios and decision-making activities to help employees actively engage with cybersecurity concepts rather than only consuming passive learning content.
S-Play is the gamified cybersecurity learning solution within the SucceedLEARN Security Behaviour & Culture Suite. It enables organisations to reinforce security awareness through interactive games and structured awareness campaigns.
S-Play currently includes interactive learning experiences such as Grab or Duck, Out of the Well and Cyber Crossword, with different formats designed to reinforce decision-making, application and knowledge recall.
No. S-Play is designed to complement foundational security awareness training by giving employees additional opportunities to revisit, apply and reinforce cybersecurity concepts through interactive learning.
Yes. Organisations can schedule gamified security awareness campaigns at different points throughout their awareness programme, helping create additional employee engagement beyond formal training events.
Yes. S-Play campaigns can be assigned across the organisation or targeted to specific departments, locations, teams or custom employee groups.
Yes. Campaigns can be launched immediately or scheduled for a future date, allowing organisations to incorporate gamified activities into their wider security awareness calendar.
S-Play provides visibility into campaign activity and employee participation. When used within the wider SucceedLEARN SBCS ecosystem, S-Play activity can also contribute to broader programme measurement through S-Metrics.
Gamification encourages employees to interact with security concepts through challenges, decisions and knowledge-based activities. This gives learners opportunities to actively apply and revisit what they have learned rather than relying entirely on passive content consumption.
S-Play can be used across different employee populations, including new joiners, existing employees, managers, remote and hybrid workers, and other groups that organisations want to engage through cybersecurity awareness activities.
Yes. Within SBCS, S-Play can work alongside S-Phish for phishing simulations, S-Bytes for continuous microlearning and S-Aware for foundational security awareness training, creating multiple forms of learning and reinforcement.
S-Play supports SucceedLEARN-based delivery, and SCORM delivery can be available depending on the applicable game or deployment configuration. Organisations can select the delivery approach that fits their learning environment.
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