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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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IdentityIntermediateMixed 1 h 30 min

The help desk resets the wrong person's MFA

On Tuesday afternoon, a caller claiming to be a regional sales director phones the IT help desk from a number that is not on file. He sounds stressed, says he has a new phone and is about to present to a major customer, and knows his employee ID and his manager's name. The agent resets his MFA and sends a temporary password. Ninety minutes later the real director, sitting in your office, gets a sign-in alert. Since then the account has opened the CRM and the shared drive for an acquisition project. What now, and how did this get through?

  • Customer support
  • IT operations
  • SOC analyst
  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
  • HR
Open exercise
AI systemIntermediateExecutive 1 h 30 min

A deepfake video call of your CEO authorises a $2.4 million payment

On Monday a finance manager joined a video call with what looked and sounded like your CEO and CFO, plus an "external lawyer". They explained a confidential acquisition and asked for three urgent payments to an escrow account, totalling $2.4 million. The manager made the payments after a follow-up email from the CEO's real address, sent through a compromised mail rule. Today the real CEO asks why finance moved money on a deal that does not exist. Your bank says the first transfer has left the receiving bank. The finance manager is distraught.

  • CFO / Finance
  • CEO / Managing director
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Legal counsel
  • HR
  • Board member
Open exercise
Outage / resilienceStarterExecutive 1 h 15 min

Checkout fails during the biggest sales hour of the year

It is 20:05 on Black Friday. Your online retailer's checkout has been failing for 18 minutes; about one payment attempt in three times out. The promotional email to 2.4 million customers went out at 20:00. Revenue for this hour last year was $1.9 million. Engineering thinks the payment provider is rate-limiting you; the payment provider says its systems are healthy. Social media has noticed, and a competitor has just extended its own sale by an hour. The CEO has joined the bridge and wants to know whether to pause the promotion. What do you decide in the next ten minutes?

  • CEO / Managing director
  • CIO / CTO
  • CFO / Finance
  • IT operations
  • Communications / PR
  • Customer support
Open exercise
IdentityAdvancedTechnical 3 h

From one phished admin to a cloud data breach

At 02:15 a help-desk agent reset MFA for a cloud administrator after a convincing phone call. By 03:00 the attacker had registered a new device, created an access key in your production cloud account and disabled two logging trails. By 05:30, 3 TB had left a storage bucket holding customer documents. Your SOC sees an impossible-travel alert at 07:50. The identity, cloud and data teams each hold part of the picture, and each believes someone else is containing it.

  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • Cloud engineer
  • IT operations
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Developer / DevOps
Open exercise
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