3D Scenario-Based Cyber Awareness Training for Employees

AckTao SA is a Swiss educational technology company founded in 2018 and based at Microcity in Neuchâtel. It sells a cloud-hosted security awareness training platform to corporate employers who need to raise the cyber competence of their staff, and it lists Crédit Agricole, Pictet, and Richemont among its customers. The company describes its content as entirely Swiss-made and has received support from the Horizon 2020 program and Innosuisse. Delivery is business-to-business by subscription, with content accessible to employees on desktop, tablet, and phone.

Rather than video modules followed by a quiz, AckTao puts learners inside interactive workplace scenarios rendered with current-generation 3D game technology and delivered by pixel streaming, so nothing heavy runs on the employee's device. Each scenario lasts roughly five to fifteen minutes. Branching dialogue and an AI layer react in real time to the choices and free-text answers a learner gives, adapting difficulty to the individual's demonstrated skill. Scenarios were designed with education specialists and neuroscientists to provoke realistic reactions under pressure.

The scenario library covers more than eighty situations spanning social engineering, phishing and smishing, password practice, mobility and travel risk, cloud computing, blockchain and metaverse exposure, connected devices, hardware handling, and regulatory obligations, and is updated as new threats appear. Content is multilingual and the platform is presented as GDPR compliant. The company reports learner retention above ninety percent and states that its approach improves retention substantially over conventional training, figures that come from AckTao's own measurements.