DIY-Facilitation Box: Cybersecurity Architecture - The Game

Players work in two teams and explore real actors, institutions, and past situations. For each scenario, they decide who was responsible, who acted, and how coordination actually worked.

The game invites players to debate roles and responsibilities, compare governance approaches, and reflect on the effectiveness of existing cybersecurity architectures.

After each round, the facilitator reveals what actually happened supported by our browser-based digital facilitator package, the facilitator can refer to practitioner quotes, reflection questions, and sometimes videos or articles from the real events.

The team with the most accurate understanding of the governance system wins.

The game focuses on system understanding, decision-making, and discussion.

• Germany’s Cybersecurity Architecture
  Explore how responsibilities are distributed in Germany’s federal system, including foreign policy, cyber crime, data protection, critical infrastructure protection, and mutual assistance.

• International Law Architecture
  Understand how international law applied in cyberspace — including state sovereignty, consent, cyber norms, and mutual legal assistance in cyber crime.

• Custom-designed Event and Actor Cards for two teams, ideal for groups of up to 20 participants

• A ready-to-use digital Facilitator Package, accessible directly in your browser

• Step-by-step facilitation guidance and coaching tips

• Three flexible play modes: 60, 90 or 120 minutes

• Interactive slides with solutions, practitioner quotes, original sources, reflection questions and debrief prompts

• Practitioner insights from experts involved in the real-world events featured in the game

Launch Bonus
The first 10 bookings include a 30-minute personal live Q&A with founder and game designer Julia Schuetze.

No prior facilitation experience is required. The digital Facilitator Package guides you through the session step by step.

Participants will:

• understand how cyber incidents evolve across a multi-actor ecosystem

• identify roles, responsibilities, and dependencies

• reflect on coordination challenges under time pressure

• translate insights into their own professional context

Conferences and professional events

• Public sector and policy audiences

• Universities and executive education

• Companies and associations

Your purchase includes a perpetual licence to use the game and the Facilitator Package. You may use the materials within your organisation as well as in workshops, trainings and facilitated sessions.

All intellectual property rights remain with Cyber Policy Haus. Reproduction, redistribution or resale of the game materials or digital assets is not permitted.

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If you're unsure whether your intended use is covered by this license, please contact us at games@cyberpolicyhaus.com before using the materials.

We believe good cybersecurity should be accessible.

The price shown in our shop includes 21% Belgian VAT, as required by law.

If you are ordering on behalf of an organization based in another EU country and have a valid VAT number, VAT can usually be deducted under the reverse charge mechanism. Simply enter your organization's VAT number during checkout or contact us if you experience any issues. Your invoice will then be issued accordingly.

Your purchase helps us produce and ship the box, maintain and improve the facilitation materials, develop new scenarios and resources, and continue our mission of making the cybersecurity ecosystem easier to understand, navigate and strengthen one conversation at a time.