Vendors at CyberCon promoted phishing simulations, training and tabletop tools for K‑12 audiences
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Attending vendors offered free trials, classroom decks and phishing‑simulation services designed for staff and students; Cyber Nut highlighted gamified awareness and Black Hills InfoSec provided tabletop materials.
Several vendors at Virginia CyberCon showcased products and services built for school districts, ranging from student‑friendly awareness training to incident‑response tabletop decks.
Vanessa Slager of Cyber Nut described her company’s human‑risk and security‑awareness service for K‑12, which combines compliance training, leveled phishing simulations and gamified reporting for staff and students. "We are the number 1 human risk and security awareness training program," Slager told the room, and offered a free two‑week baseline assessment to attendees.
Black Hills Information Security demonstrated Backdoors and Breaches, a card‑based tabletop that Black Hills provides for free to educators and gives away printed decks for classroom and district practice. Jason Blanchard described how the cards let teams run realistic scenarios and surface procedural gaps in detection, communications and decision‑rights.
Conference organizers also said reseller partners had offered limited‑time trials of endpoint detection products, and several vendors donated printed decks, play mats and exercise facilitation at no charge to the event.
Speakers and vendor representatives urged districts to use those tools as part of a broader program of staff training, tabletop rehearsal and tested backups.
