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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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RansomwareStarterTechnical 1 h 15 min

Friday night encryption with a skeleton crew

It is 23:15 on the Friday before a long weekend. The only on-call engineer gets an alert for mass file renames on a file server, then twelve more servers in five minutes. The SOC is outsourced: it has opened a ticket but cannot isolate hosts without written approval. The IT manager is on a flight until 06:00, the CISO is not answering, and the incident response retainer's hotline wants a contract number nobody on shift has. The attacker is still active. Who can authorise isolation right now, and what do you pull first?

  • IT operations
  • SOC analyst
  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
Open exercise
CrisisIntermediateExecutive 2 h

Briefing the board in the first 24 hours

It is 07:40. Overnight your SOC confirmed that an intruder has had access to the customer database for at least nine days. Containment is under way but not finished. The chair has heard a rumour from another director and wants a call with the full board at 18:00 today. You do not yet know how many records were taken, whether the attacker is still inside, or whether a regulatory clock has started. You have ten hours to decide what the board needs to hear, who says it, and what you will refuse to guess at.

  • CISO / Head of security
  • CEO / Managing director
  • Board member
  • Legal counsel
  • CFO / Finance
  • Communications / PR
Open exercise
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