Grades 11–12

Incident Commander

Choose the best action at each stage of the incident. Score 75% of the points to earn the badge.

Part of Cybersecurity Pathway: Cyber Career Academy

You lead the security team at Northwind Supplies, a made-up company.

Score 0Scene 1/5
Detect

08:40 — Three staff report files renamed to “.locked” and a ransom note on their screens.

What do you do first?

What this game teaches

  • The incident response cycle: detect, contain, eradicate, recover, learn
  • Why evidence and communication matter
  • Never pay first, panic or hide it

Play together

  • Ask: “What would our family do if a laptop got locked?”
  • Check that important files have a backup.
Want more? This game comes from Cybersecurity Pathway: Cyber Career Academy

Enterprise security, SOC operations, incident response, forensics, cloud and AI security — ending in a capstone defended before mentors.

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