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Tabletop exercise library

100 ready-to-run cyber tabletop exercises across 15 incident domains. Search them, pick one at random, or tell us who will be in the room and we'll rank the scenarios that fit those people best. Every exercise shows who to involve, how long it runs and an outline — and the scenario prompt is free to copy and read out.

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AI systemIntermediateMixed 1 h 45 min

Your customer-support chatbot is tricked into revealing other customers' data

A user posts screenshots on social media of your customer-support chatbot. By pasting a crafted instruction into the chat, they got it to look up and display order histories, addresses and partial card numbers for three other customers. The bot uses a large language model with a tool that queries the order database using the customer ID the model supplies. The post has 40,000 views and replies show other people trying the same trick. The bot handles 9,000 conversations a day and is the only support channel open overnight. It is 22:30.

  • CISO / Head of security
  • Developer / DevOps
  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Customer support
  • Communications / PR
  • Legal counsel
  • Incident response lead
Open exercise
Outage / resilienceIntermediateExecutive 1 h 30 min

Classifying and reporting a major ICT incident under DORA

At 07:15 on a Tuesday, your EU payment institution loses its core transaction database after a fault at the cloud provider that hosts it. Card authorisations are failing for about 40% of merchants across four member states. The provider's status page says 'degraded performance' and gives no estimate. By 09:00 your service desk has logged 2,300 merchant complaints. Your head of compliance asks the question nobody has answered yet: is this a major ICT-related incident under DORA, and if so, when did the clock start? The CEO wants to know what goes to the regulator, and when.

  • CIO / CTO
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Legal counsel
  • CEO / Managing director
  • Vendor / procurement manager
  • Communications / PR
Open exercise
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