Liz Gore, cybersecurity educator and author

👾 The Cyber Bard 👾

New Quest

SANS Security Awareness & Culture Summit 2026

Pixel art of a lone pink-haired adventurer holding a torch, standing before a huge carved stone dungeon archway that opens into darkness.

Solo Campaign: Building Security Culture When You're the Whole Department

📅 August 28, 2026🕑 2:30 PM – 2:55 PM PDT📍 Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV & Virtual

You ARE the IT department. You're also the security team, the awareness program, and the culture change initiative. A ground-level account of running a 12-week voluntary champion program with quest-based learning and fantasy-themed red team trials — the wins, the wipes, and what I'd roll differently on a second playthrough.

New CampaignReleased August 2026 — run it at work

The Security Guild Toolkit

Security awareness training nobody skips, because it is a campaign instead of a slide deck: Session Zero, weekly quest briefings, red team trials your champions consented to, and a D&D one-shot capstone. Everything to run it is written already.

  • 12 weeks
  • 57 quests
  • 23 files
  • CC BY 4.0
Browse the toolkit →or grab the whole thing (ZIP · 2.9 MB)
Mini Quest

Character Creation Quiz

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Roll your cyber stats, discover your class, and get a tailored learning path in an interactive D&D-inspired assessment.

Hundreds of adventurers have found their class

Take the Quiz

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