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  1. Your handler briefing you Get your orders

    Your handler briefs you on the target and your cover. Every operation is a new building and a new case.

  2. Talking to a member of staff Talk your way in

    Staff have information, agendas and attitude. What you say decides who helps you, and who turns on you.

  3. The lockpicking puzzle Break in

    Pick locks, clone keycards, crack keypads and decode notes. Every lock guards the next clue.

  4. A Kali Linux desktop inside the game Hack for real

    Clues become credentials. Attack a live server from a full Kali Linux desktop and capture the evidence.

SAFETYNET: Licence to Hack

  • HANDS-ON HACKING

SAFETYNET: Licence to Hack is a cyber security escape room game where the hacking is real.

Enter a world of counter-intelligence operations, corporate infiltration, and digital sabotage. Each mission drops you into a live scenario — navigate physical spaces, pick locks, interrogate NPCs, and break into real systems on real virtual machines — rooted in real cyber security techniques.

Work through a campaign of escalating missions as you unravel the reach of ENTROPY — a shadowy network running influence operations, ransomware campaigns, and insider threats across critical infrastructure. Every mission adds a new layer to the story, and a new set of skills.

A Hacktivity Game.

Trailer · 1 minute

What's included

OPERATIONS1
LIVE FIELD SERVERS1 OF 1
  • ▶ Live field servers. Real VMs with real hacking tools: Kali Linux with a full desktop, in your browser.
  • ▶ Hacking challenges on those servers in every operation.
  • ▶ Escape-room puzzles and conversations, chained with the hacking.

Your access

NOT SIGNED IN Operation 1 freeThe demo: Operation 1 free

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Real cyber security skills

No experience needed. Every puzzle in the game is a real cyber security technique, the kind professionals use, and you learn it by doing it.

Knowledge areas (CyBOK): each operation is mapped to the Cyber Security Body of Knowledge, the map of the field that UK university cyber security degrees are built on. Here is what the operations cover, and how many practise each area.

  • Authentication, Authorisation and Accountability AAA 1 operation user authentication
  • Cyber Physical Systems CPS 1 operation Physical access control
  • Network Security NS 1 operation common network attacks
  • Operating Systems & Virtualisation Security OSV 1 operation authentication and identification
  • Security Operations & Incident Management SOIM 1 operation Penetration testing - software tools