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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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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
Data breachAdvancedExecutive 2 h 30 min

Is it material? The 8-K clock after a data theft

You are a listed software company. On Monday the security team confirmed that an attacker took source code and a database of 1.1 million customer contact records through a compromised build server. Revenue impact is unclear, and two large customers have asked whether their API keys were exposed. The disclosure committee meets Wednesday morning. Once you determine the incident is material, you have four business days to file. Some in the room want to wait for the forensic report due in three weeks. Others think the decision is already overdue.

  • Legal counsel
  • CFO / Finance
  • CEO / Managing director
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Board member
  • Communications / PR
Open exercise
CrisisStarterExecutive 1 h 30 min

The insurer says the claim may not be covered

Three weeks after a ransomware attack, your company has spent 1.8 million on forensics, overtime and lost revenue. The insurer's coverage letter arrives. It reserves its rights and cites two problems. The application you signed last year stated that multi-factor authentication was enforced for all remote access, but the attacker came in through a legacy VPN account without it. And a war and state-actor exclusion may apply, because a government advisory linked the ransomware group to a hostile state. Finance needs to know what to book this quarter.

  • CFO / Finance
  • Legal counsel
  • CISO / Head of security
  • CEO / Managing director
  • CIO / CTO
Open exercise
CrisisStarterExecutive 1 h 15 min

The CEO is on a plane and the decision cannot wait

At 14:10 on a Friday your online store is taken offline by an attack that has encrypted the order database. The CEO is on a 14-hour flight with no reliable connectivity and lands tomorrow morning. The COO is on leave. Someone has to decide whether to shut down the payment gateway, whether to tell customers, and whether to engage an incident response firm that wants 250,000 dollars up front. The incident plan says 'the CEO approves'. It says nothing else.

  • CISO / Head of security
  • CIO / CTO
  • CFO / Finance
  • Legal counsel
  • Communications / PR
  • Board member
Open exercise
M&AIntermediateExecutive 2 h

Due diligence finds the target was breached

Your company is six weeks from signing an agreement to buy a 300-person payments start-up. During security due diligence your team finds credentials for the target's production cloud account for sale on a criminal marketplace, dated four months ago. The founders say they had 'a minor incident' that was handled and that no notifications were needed. Their logs only go back 30 days. The deal team wants a recommendation this week: walk away, reprice, add protections in the agreement, or demand an independent investigation first.

  • CISO / Head of security
  • CEO / Managing director
  • CFO / Finance
  • Legal counsel
  • Board member
  • Privacy officer / DPO
Open exercise
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