Nowadays, increasing number of the training activities in the industry are conducted online or hybrid. Hybrid work refers to us the work mode where a part of or all of the training participants join the training online instead of staying together in a classroom physically.

This work provides a unique industry experience report on adapting the traditional cyber-security trainings with the enrichment of two novel serious games that we designed under the design science research paradigm.

Our work is motivated by a case study on highlighting the need to establish secure coding guidelines in the industry and the need to raise awareness on cloud security issues. Following scientifically-sound approach, we design the first serious game CyberSecurity Challenge (CSC) and validated our design with the target group in 15 game events. By reusing the infrastructure and inspired by the success story of the CSC, we design the second serious game focusing on cloud security. We evaluate our serious game in hybrid environment in trainer’s perspective, trainee’s perspective and organizational perspective in 9 game event with 108 participants.

In conclusion, we explored the potential of using serious games in the industry in the era of hybrid work. From the result we collected, it is a promising approach. The presentation of our work in CSEE&T will include recent results from evaluation and an outlook for new game designs.