To teach supply chain risk in a fun way, a game was developed for the RSAC Supply Chain Sandbox, the world’s largest cybersecurity conference. It was reprised at BSidesLV, a hacker conference. QuadBlocksQuiz is a reimagined take on Tretrominoes where playful spatial negotiations are infused with real-life Trivia challenges from the world of supply chain security.

The talk will begin with why the game was developed, and discuss the game from the players’ perspective, the developers’ perspective, and the educators’ perspective. The talk will include short pre-recorded demo’s and links will be provided to play live.

The game was written in Elixir on the Phoenix Framework and includes Trivia questions on Elixir, EEF, and Phoenix – since they are part of the supply chain for the game! The cloud instantiation of the game includes the game’s Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) built using hex/SBOM, and there are even trivia questions about that SBOM. The talk will cover “why Elixir?”, and more importantly, the relevance of BEAM/OTP to supply chain security. All the software is opensource and an instantiation will be live for attendees to play the game if interested.