Not Your Average Cyber Training Company
We do escape rooms, vishing simulations, AR missions and large-scale events that make people actually experience what a breach feels like. Because the only cyber training that changes behaviour is the kind that leaves a mark.
From a Briefcase to a global brand.
In spring 2023, we built a cyber escape room that lived in a briefcase. It was scrappy, rough, and completely unlike anything else in the industry. The goal was simple: make people actually engage with cyber security by letting them experience it. Not observe it. Not memorise it. Live it.
That first escape room turned heads. Then it turned into a business. Then it went global.
We're not here to tick boxes. We're here to change what people do when the real thing hits.
Today, The Cyber Escape Room Co. designs and delivers physical, digital, and hybrid experiences that help organisations around the world engage their teams, change behaviour, and build a genuine security culture. Not through compliance theatre. Not through annual awareness programmes everyone forgets by Thursday. Through immersive, high-stakes experience that the brain actually encodes.
We operate from Yorkshire. We ship everywhere. And yes, we cause a fair bit of chaos along the way.
Behaviour Change, Not Awareness
Knowing what a phishing email looks like doesn't stop people clicking it. Feeling the consequences of clicking it does. We engineer the emotional memory, not just the knowledge transfer.
Behaviour Change, Not Awareness
Knowing what a phishing email looks like doesn't stop people clicking it. Feeling the consequences of clicking it does. We engineer the emotional memory, not just the knowledge transfer.
Experience is the Evidence
The neuroscience is clear: emotionally encoded experiences are retained longer, recalled faster, and applied under pressure. We don't just believe this. We build our entire methodology around it.
No Slides. No Lectures. No Excuses.
If your security training can be skipped at 2x speed, it isn't training. We make experiences your people can't fast-forward, because they're too busy trying to stop a breach in real time.
Amy Stokes-Waters
Amy started The Cyber Escape Room Co. with a single conviction: cyber training doesn't need to be boring, and the fact that it is boring is actively making organisations less safe.
With a background in sales and marketing at cyber companies, she had a front-row seat to the compliance theatre problem. She watched organisations spend serious budget on training that nobody remembered, policies that nobody read, and phishing simulations that made people feel caught out rather than genuinely better prepared.
So she did something about it. She built a briefcase escape room. Then she built a company around it. The she took it global.
Today, Amy leads a UK-based brand with global reach - speaking at conferences, writing about the science of behaviour change, and designing experiences that consistently produce the reaction security teams rarely hear: "That was actually brilliant."
She challenges the status quo deliberately. And, let's be honest, because she physically cannot help herself.
The Team.
The magic and the mayhem, in roughly equal measure.
Commercial Director
MIKE WAGER
Over a decade in cyber sales. Mike leads commercial strategy on our biggest projects, turning complex briefs into real impact — with charm, clout, and zero fluff.
Once closed a deal in the middle of an escape room. Yes, really.
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Operations Manager
DEE FORD
A decade in compliance at a global bank. Dee runs ops, delivery, and finance with calm precision — the person who keeps the chaos moving smoothly and on budget.
Her to-do lists have to-do lists. We've seen them.
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Technology Director
MICHAEL SAGE
Head of Digital Services at Chelmsford Council. Michael keeps our tech sharp, scalable, and reliable — the steady hand behind the systems that make wild ideas actually work.
If it plugs in, he's already patched it. Twice.
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Events Director
ROB LANCASTER
40 years of event wizardry — including the Spice Girls world tour and large-scale O2 productions. If something needs to be built, moved, or made magical, Rob makes it happen.
The only man we know who carries a spare printer.
LinkedIn →We take cyber security seriously. Not ourselves.
Every event, every escape room, every game is built with obsessive attention to detail... and a fair bit of laughing, swearing, and "what the fuck just happened?!" moments behind the scenes. These are the outtakes they told us not to post. Because, yes, we're professional. Just not in a boring way.
Our advisors
The people who challenge our thinking, keep us sharp,
and make us make smarter decisions.
Strategy & Transformation
AMANDA STOKES-WATERS
Over three decades of leadership experience in business transformation. Steers our strategic decisions and keeps the big picture in focus.
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Commercial
DANE CLACKWORTHY
Former Royal Marines officer, now Sales Director at Waterfall Security. Deep commercial acumen, OT expertise, and frontline leadership perspective.
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Product Development
ANTHONY ENOH
Leads Enbros, helping founders build AI-first products. Brings practical insight on product strategy, scale, and user-centred development.
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Military Security
DINOS KERIGAN-KYROU
Cyber instructor with NATO DEEP, specialising in training delivery and operational security. Strengthens our approach to high-stakes, realistic learning.
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Incident Response
PHIL CRACKNELL
Former CISO at several major UK firms, advisor to MoD and the Cabinet Office. His experience shapes our incident-led narratives and risk thinking.
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Cyber Security
KEITH PRICE
Former Security Operations Director for the US DoD. Now CSO at National Highways. Deep cyber leadership, governance expertise, and strategic security direction.
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Game & Experience Design
ALAN COO
Security operations background meets unmatched escape-room expertise. Alan elevates our game design with immersive mechanics and player-first thinking.
LinkedIn →Based in the Uk. Shipped worldwide.
We operate from Yorkshire and deliver experiences globally. Whether you're in Cardiff, California, or Kathmandu, the chaos can find you.
Address
Queensgate House, 23 North Park Road
Harrogate, HG1 5PD
info@cyberescaperoom.co
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