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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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CloudStarterTechnical 1 h 15 min

A production cloud access key is pushed to a public repository

It is 10:40 on a Tuesday. A secret-scanning service emails your security inbox: a long-lived access key for your production deployment account was pushed to a public code repository 47 minutes ago, from a contractor's personal fork. The key has administrator rights. Your cloud audit log shows calls made with that key in the last ten minutes from an address nobody recognises, and the release pipeline uses the same key for tonight's deploy. The contractor is not answering their phone. What do you do in the next fifteen minutes?

  • Cloud engineer
  • Incident response lead
  • Developer / DevOps
  • SOC analyst
  • CISO / Head of security
Open exercise
DevSecOps / supply chainIntermediateTechnical 2 h

The build output does not match the source

A release engineer runs a reproducible-build check on tomorrow's release and it fails: the compiled agent your customers install on 40,000 endpoints contains a 3 KB block that is not in any commit. Rebuilding on a clean machine gives a different hash. The build server's scheduled tasks include a script nobody recognises, created five weeks ago. Your last two releases came off the same server and are already in customers' hands. Release is scheduled for 09:00 tomorrow and the sales team has promised the new version to your largest customer.

  • Developer / DevOps
  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
  • SOC analyst
  • CIO / CTO
Open exercise
DevSecOps / supply chainAdvancedMixed 2 h 45 min

Your signed software update is backdoored and customers have installed it

A customer's security team calls your CISO at 07:30. Their EDR flagged your desktop agent, version 9.4.1, released nine days ago and signed with your code-signing certificate, making outbound connections to a domain registered last month. Your engineers confirm the binary contains code that is not in your repository. Telemetry says 3,100 customer organisations have installed 9.4.1, including hospitals and two government agencies. The customer says they will post their findings publicly at noon. Your auto-update service is still offering 9.4.1 right now.

  • CISO / Head of security
  • CEO / Managing director
  • Legal counsel
  • Developer / DevOps
  • Communications / PR
  • Customer support
  • CIO / CTO
Open exercise
CrisisStarterExecutive 1 h 15 min

A law firm announces it is 'investigating' your breach

Four days after you notified 210,000 customers that their names, addresses and loyalty account details were exposed, a plaintiffs' law firm publishes a press release saying it is investigating claims against your retail chain and inviting affected customers to get in touch. A demand letter citing a state privacy statute arrives the next day. Customer support is fielding calls asking whether people should join. Your forensic firm is still finishing its report. What gets written down now may be read in court later.

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