Government & Defence
find unconventional talent before attackers do
GAmers are getting groomed by cyber criminals. THE HACKING APTITUDE AI (HAPTAI) identifies unconventional cyber talent through gaming and coding repos, matching them to cyber roles and creating a pipeline of talent For governments, defence agencies, and national programme partners.
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the talent you need are gamers
credential-based hiring filters out self-taught, unconventional, and neurodivergent practitioners; THE VERY PEOPLE WHO ARE OFTEN the strongest cybersecurity performers.
THE HACKING APTITUDE AI’s UNIQUE APTITUDE-BASED methodology finds THEM, grades how work-ready they are, matches them to cyber roles AND THEN coaches them to SUCCESS when employed.
"I found the entire experience, from recruiter invitation TO MY final report, genuinely innovative, engaging, and remarkably insightful."
population-level talent intelligence
HAPTAI DATA COMES FROM THE GAMERS THEMSELVES; STEAM gaming ACCOUNTS, open-source repositories, CTF competition records, personality questions. At NATIONAL programme scale, the platform surfaceS aptitude distributions across cohorts of thousands without requiring onerous assessments that LEADS CANDIDATES TO DROP OUT.
HAPTAI profiles are explainable, evidential, and resistant to the subjective bias that makes conventional interview-based selection difficult to defend under internal audit or procurement review. Hiring decisions supported by HAPTAI profiles can withstand the scrutiny that government and agency procurement environments require.
Population-level profiling produces aggregated insight into the aptitude distribution of national talent, such as which persona types are most abundant, where geographic or demographic concentrations exist, and how that distribution maps against anticipated workforce demand. This supports strategic planning, policy alignment, and programme reporting against outcomes.
national programmes
The Hacking Games is COMMENCING talent identification programmes in partnership with national governments, connecting talent to GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT.
This work demonstratES that gaming and challenge-derived data (CTFs, BUG BOUNTIES) can serve as an ACCURATE signal for national cyber capability mapping and employment in both THE public and private sectorS.
"I'm quite surprised! How did it know about the roles I would fit for, like incident response? I haven't given any data regarding those sectors, only about gaming and my speedrun and hacking, nothing more - and this thing is perfectly matching to my personality."
aligned to the national strategic agenda
HAPTAI's methodology and The Hacking Games'S programme delivery are aligned to the stated priorities of the NCSC Cyber Security Strategy 2022, DSIT's Digital Skills priorities, and the broader workforce development objectives articulated in the National Cyber Strategy. The approach addresses the workforce diversity imperative to identify talent from non-traditional routes, a goal all three policy frameworks identify as critical to closing the national skills gap.
Sources: NCSC Cyber Security Strategy 2022 | DSIT Cyber Security Skills in the UK Labour Market 2024
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