Rehearsal for the hot seat

Train for the CISO seatand the job after it.

You work through 17 years of incidents modelled on breaches that actually happened, then you have to defend your calls to a board and sit a mock interview that grills you on the rules in your own region. It's about as close to the job as you can get before someone hands you the job.

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Which seat are you in?

Same product, three different first moves. Pick the one that sounds like Monday morning.

A quick look inside.

Six surfaces, five seconds each. Every scenario is fictional — inspired by real-world incidents.

SIEM Live Feed · Zoomify AI · Y700:42
criticalOutbound C2 beacon from build-runner-04 — MCP tool call chain originated from support-bot session
highAnomalous token grant: service account escalated to org-admin 14 min ago
infoGC asking for a call. CEO wants a one-liner for the board thread.

Isolate the runner and burn the release window — or trust the WAF rule and ship? You have 42 seconds.

Play an incident

Three things you can only get good at by doing them

Reading about incident command is not the same as running one at 2am. So we let you run one.

Five security tools, included

Five is the promise — we built them, we use them ourselves, and they come with every subscription. There's more in the box on top of that (AI BOM, a country-aware resume review, and AI SVS as it ships), but the five are what you're paying for.

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The threat pulse

week 2026-W33

What we're watching — the incidents shaping what the War Room throws at you. From the weekly PlayCISO briefing.

Signal 1

China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware

A financially motivated group tied to China, previously known for using Medusa ransomware, has switched to a new strain called StormEncryptor. Microsoft says the attacks likely start through a flaw in N-central remote management software.

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Signal 2

CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 Flaws Now Exploited by Ransomware Gangs

Ransomware crews are actively exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 bugs, one of them a maximum-severity SSRF flaw. CISA confirmed the exploitation, so anyone still running unpatched devices should treat this as urgent.

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Signal 3

Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Leaking Jira and Confluence Data

Researchers found that hidden instructions, even ones buried in a PDF, can hijack Atlassian's Rovo AI assistant and quietly send Jira or Confluence data to an outside server. The attack needs no user confirmation and leaves no trace, which is the scary part.

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