OT incidents don't start with sirens and flashing dashboards. They start with something small. A door left unlocked. A badge clones. A laptop plugged in where it shouldn't be.

What happens when a cyber incident doesn’t start with malware… but with a door?

In this fast-paced, hands-on workshop, The Cyber Escape Room Co. invites attendees to step inside a live OT cyber escape room and experience an industrial incident from the inside out. No slides. No lectures. Just teamwork, time pressure, and a compromised operational environment that needs fixing fast.

As IT and OT systems become increasingly interconnected, the line between “IT security issue” and “OT safety problem” is disappearing. This workshop is designed to reflect that reality. Participants will investigate how physical security gaps, IT failures, and OT constraints combine to create real-world risk, and how incident response decisions in one domain directly affect the other.

Set inside a fictional but highly realistic industrial scenario, attendees will act as the on-site response team, working together to regain access to systems, identify the breach, and prevent further operational impact. The experience concludes with a practical debrief linking the chaos back to real OT and IT security lessons that actually stick.