Engage in a Box

Engage in a Box is an educational system designed to help students apply the concepts of cyber denial, deception, and adversary engagement to their organization’s cyber security strategies.

Engage in a Box includes lectures, labs, and a board game. This is not a technical course. Instead, students walk away with a new way of thinking about these critical cyber concepts. Using a board game allows students to immerse themselves in key lecture topics and quickly grasp adversary engagement concepts at the strategic level without getting bogged down in technical details. The accompanying instructor guides contain all the necessary materials to “Train the Trainer” and allow anyone to teach the course.

See, Think, Do

The Engage team identified a gap in available training resources in cyber denial, deception, and adversary engagement. Plenty of organizations offer technical courses. However, few resources exist to help decision-makers to think strategically about how these technologies fit into their cyber strategy. Training in this area is critical, especially for engineers who have significant technical training, and now find themselves in management roles where they need a whole new skillset.

Engage in a Box Step by Step

1. Using nontechnical, modular lecture and lab content, students learn key concepts.
2. Students build up their cyber toolbox by learning about tools and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK®, the ATT&CK Navigator, MITRE Engage™, and Crown Jewel Analysis, among others.
3. Students operationalize these concepts by applying them to a real-world scenario to design their own adversary engagement pilot.
4. After the lecture and labs, students participate in a facilitated board game, where they are asked to apply and discuss course content in a fun and educational setting.

While intended as a full-day course, content can be adjusted to fit shorter time intervals as needed, with templates for half- and full-day courses. In addition, each kit contains resources for the instructor including detailed guides on how to present the lab, lecture, and game content, pre- and post-course surveys to gauge student learning, and templated communications for use with students.

For information about MITRE Engage, contact engage@mitre.org or visit us at engage.mitre.org. To discuss licensing options, contact MITRE’s Technology Transfer Office at techtransfer@mitre.org.