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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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RansomwareStarterExecutive 1 h 30 min

Ransomware takes a local council's resident services offline

Monday, 07:30. Staff at a county council serving 280,000 residents arrive to find file shares encrypted and the housing benefits, social care case management and parking systems unavailable. Phones still work, but the contact centre cannot see case records. A social worker needs a child's safeguarding history for an emergency court hearing at 11:00. The ransom note demands payment within 72 hours and threatens to publish residents' data. Councillors are already asking questions, and a local reporter has heard that the payments portal is down. What do you prioritise this morning?

  • CEO / Managing director
  • CIO / CTO
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Legal counsel
  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Communications / PR
  • CFO / Finance
Open exercise
CrisisIntermediateExecutive 1 h 30 min

A deepfake of your election official circulates two days before polling

Two days before a municipal election, a 40-second audio clip spreads on social media. It sounds like your county's chief election official telling a colleague that ballots from two precincts 'will be handled differently this year'. A second post, styled like your website, says three polling places have moved. Your official never said this, and nothing has moved. By noon the clip has 300,000 plays, your phone lines are jammed, and a candidate is demanding an explanation. Your public results website is also seeing unusual traffic. How do you respond without amplifying the fake?

  • CEO / Managing director
  • Communications / PR
  • Legal counsel
  • CISO / Head of security
  • CIO / CTO
  • IT operations
Open exercise
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