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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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IdentityIntermediateTechnical 2 h

Stolen session tokens bypass MFA

The head of sales operations clicked a link to a shared proposal on Monday and signed in as usual, MFA and all. This morning your identity logs show her session in use from a hosting provider while she is also active from the office, with no new sign-in and no MFA prompt. Overnight the session read 900 emails, downloaded the pricing folder, exported contacts from the CRM through single sign-on and consented to a new mail app. The help desk reset her password an hour ago. The activity has not stopped. Why not, and what do you revoke?

  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • Cloud engineer
  • IT operations
  • CISO / Head of security
Open exercise
Email / BECAdvancedMixed 2 h 15 min

Your own mailbox is used to defraud customers

Three customers call within a day to say they paid your invoices to new bank details your accounts receivable team emailed them. The emails came from your real billing mailbox, sat inside genuine threads and used your invoice template. Logs show the mailbox has been accessed from overseas for 26 days through a legacy mail protocol that skips MFA. Losses so far total $430,000 across three customers, and the mailbox holds 2,100 customer contacts. Customers want to know who is liable. Your general counsel asks: must we warn all 2,100 today?

  • CISO / Head of security
  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • Legal counsel
  • CFO / Finance
  • Communications / PR
  • Customer support
  • Privacy officer / DPO
Open exercise
DevSecOps / supply chainIntermediateTechnical 1 h 45 min

A poisoned open-source package ran in your builds for three days

A public advisory says a popular open-source logging package was hijacked: version 4.8.2, published three days ago, runs a post-install script that reads environment variables and sends them to a remote server. Your dependency manifests allow minor updates. A quick search shows 14 of your repositories pulled 4.8.2, and your CI runners, which hold cloud deploy credentials, package registry tokens and a signing key in their environment, built every one of them, many times. Two developers also installed it on their laptops. What do you assume was taken?

  • Developer / DevOps
  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • Cloud engineer
  • CISO / Head of security
Open exercise
DevSecOps / supply chainStarterTechnical 1 h 15 min

A developer's laptop runs an infostealer and their sessions are replayed

Your EDR raises a medium-severity alert on a senior developer's laptop: an unsigned executable launched from the downloads folder, then deleted itself. The developer says they installed a "free licence key generator" for a design tool on Saturday. It is now Monday. Since Saturday, their code-hosting session, their cloud console session and their password manager browser extension have all been used from an IP address in another country, with no multi-factor prompts, because the attacker replayed session cookies. The developer has admin rights on 60 repositories. Where do you start?

  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • IT operations
  • Developer / DevOps
  • Cloud engineer
Open exercise
Outage / resilienceAdvancedTechnical 2 h 15 min

Your domain is hijacked at the registrar

At 07:10 customers of a 700-person online bank start reporting that the login page looks slightly wrong and asks for their one-time passcode twice. Your engineers find the domain’s name servers were changed overnight through the registrar’s web portal, using a staff account protected only by a password and SMS codes. DNS now points to attacker-controlled servers, and a certificate for your login hostname was issued to someone else at 03:40. Some resolvers still have the old records cached. The registrar’s support line opens at 09:00. How do you take your domain back, and what do you tell customers?

  • IT operations
  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Cloud engineer
  • Vendor / procurement manager
  • Communications / PR
  • Legal counsel
Open exercise
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