The Suspicious Welcome Pack

The situation

A polished onboarding message asks for a password export to unlock a premium keyboard. This fictional security exercise asks you to check the request and challenge 8-BIT's unsafe proposal. Lydia explains the correction in the same scene.

What you'll learn

• Recognising phishing; multi-factor auth; keeping software updated.
• Backups and recovering a deleted file; data classification.
• Challenging a confident but unsafe AI suggestion with evidence.
• Following an authorised simulated incident response: contain, remove persistence, recover and complete the report; initial alerting happens at the start.

Who you work with

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  Lydia Roe

  Security Engineer

• 

  Maya Chen

  Senior AI Engineer · Your mentor

• 8-BIT

  Code Nexus Internal AI Assistant

• 

  Jax Rivera

  Creator Partnerships Lead

Scenes

1. 1.A generous offer
2. 2.Spot the tells
3. 3.Classify and restore
4. 4.Overrule 8-BIT
5. 5.Contain it
6. 6.Foundations checkpoint

What you leave with

You identified the phishing request, reported through the known channel and rejected the unsafe AI draft with a reason. You practised recovery and restricted handling of synthetic HR data, then followed the authorised workstation-response simulation.