CyberCon: Cybersecurity Tycoon

Build your own cybersecurity empire

CyberCon is a deep business simulation where you found and run your own cybersecurity consultancy from the ground up. Will you become the company the state trusts with its most critical projects — or run a shadow operation doing illegal work and selling data behind the scenes? Your choices decide your fate.

Build Your Company

Start at a single desk with a few skills and a little savings. Hire the right people, form specialist teams, and land your first clients.

Build Your Headquarters

Design and build your office yourself. Set up forensics labs, red team rooms, a round-the-clock Security Operations Center, an audit center, or training classrooms — and become number one in the industry at what you do.

Manage Your Team

Every specialist has one real domain — there is no miracle hire. Train your people, earn them certifications, and deepen their expertise with badges. Keep them happy and rested, because a burned-out expert makes a mistake at the most critical moment.

Your Skill Is Your Weapon — Choose Your Path

Price the offers coming in from the private sector, enter government tenders, and deliver the best work you can before the deadline. Rival firms are after the same jobs — fight them, poach their people, and climb to the top of the industry rankings.

Along the way you either put in the work, earn reputation and trust, and eventually become the state's strategic partner — or take on unethical, illegal jobs, cut corners, embrace the risk, and open the door to darker markets.

Survive the Market

Manage your budget, payroll, taxes, lawsuits, severance, and loan rates that shift with inflation. Lose control of cash flow and your people walk; miss your debts and the company folds. Survive in a ruthless economy. Build legal and marketing teams to keep your company standing.

A Realistic Cybersecurity Management Simulation

Your skills determine the quality of the work you deliver, but they are not enough to win the work on their own. Landing a job or winning a tender depends on the price you offer, whether you meet the requirements, who you know, and sometimes on activities that cross ethical lines. In this grounded scenario, every decision you make carries a consequence.

Features

• Office and facility building system
• Specialization, badges, certifications, and training systems
• A skill system that determines delivery quality, not whether you win the work
• Procedurally generated clients, contracts, and tender specifications
• Rival firms that grow and collapse, plus live industry rankings
• Full economy: loans, inflation, payroll, severance, taxes
• A business-line progression tree branching into legal and gray paths
• An interface played entirely inside a fictional desktop operating system