Cyber Spotlight VR

Yorkshire and Humber Regional and Organised Crime Unit (YHROCU) provides free awareness and education training as part of its PREVENT and PROTECT initiatives which aims to keep the public safe from online harm. YHROCU recognises the importance of educating parents on online risks and strategies to protect their children in the digital age, as part of their PREVENT mission. Additionally, YHROCU facilitate, as part of their PROTECT mission, events to help employees enhance their cyber awareness knowledge and cyber hygiene. 

In order to help engage the target audiences, as part of their operations, YHROCU collaborated with CENTRIC to create Cyber Spotlight VR – a unique, immersive virtual reality education platform with the aim to boost participation, whilst being effective in educating on the topics created. For the PREVENT mission, the platform aims to educate parents about legal aspects of the Computer Misuse Act as well as potential indicators that may suggest that a child is at risk. Users find themselves in a virtual bedroom, where they can interact with various objects and technologies to obtain information and knowledge about the risks or indicators associated with these items. As part of the second module, which aids on the PROTECT mission, the platform targets employees of small to medium enterprises to enhance their knowledge on the evolving landscape of cyber threats in an engaging and interactive way. By immersing the user into a virtual office, the platform places the user into different scenarios demonstrating the methodologies malicious actors utilise to try and access organisations data, and / or cause damage to their systems.