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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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IdentityIntermediateExecutive 1 h 30 min

Do we switch off single sign-on?

Your incident response firm believes the attacker who compromised your identity provider can still get back in, but cannot yet prove how. Their recommendation: take single sign-on offline for all 3,000 staff for up to 24 hours from 18:00 tonight while they rebuild trust. That means no email, no CRM, no payroll system, no ticketing and no remote access. Sales has a quarter-end close in two days. Customers know nothing yet. The CEO wants a decision from the room by 17:00. What do you decide, and what are you accepting by deciding it?

  • CEO / Managing director
  • CIO / CTO
  • CISO / Head of security
  • CFO / Finance
  • Communications / PR
  • Legal counsel
  • HR
Open exercise
Third partyStarterExecutive 1 h 20 min

A vendor holding your customer data appears on a leak site

A threat-intelligence feed your team subscribes to posts a new entry: a ransomware group claims to have stolen 600 GB from a small order-fulfilment company. You use that company to ship orders, and you send it customer names, addresses, phone numbers and order contents every day. The listing includes a file tree with a folder named after your brand. The vendor has not contacted you. When you call, the owner says they "had a computer problem last week" and that their IT provider is handling it. You are the data controller for those customers.

  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Vendor / procurement manager
  • Legal counsel
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Communications / PR
  • Customer support
Open exercise
Third partyStarterExecutive 1 h 15 min

A billing vendor's breach starts your HIPAA notification clock

Your medical billing company, a business associate that processes claims for your 180-physician practice, sends a two-paragraph email: an unauthorised party accessed one of their file servers 'between March and June' and some of your patients may be affected. They found it 41 days ago. They have not said which patients, what data, or whether it was encrypted. Your compliance officer asks when your own 60-day clock started, and whether it started without you. Patients are calling the front desk after a local news story. What do you need from the vendor today, and who owns the answer?

  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Legal counsel
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Vendor / procurement manager
  • Communications / PR
  • Customer support
Open exercise
DevSecOps / supply chainAdvancedTechnical 2 h 30 min

A tenant-isolation bug shows customers each other's data

A customer of your 400-person HR software company opens a support ticket with a screenshot: their dashboard search returned salary records belonging to another customer's employees. Engineering traces it to a caching change deployed nine days ago that sometimes keys results by query text instead of by tenant. Logs show the faulty path ran at least 6,000 times, but nobody yet knows how many of those responses held another tenant's data, or which tenants saw what. You process data for 1,100 business customers, most of them in the EU and UK. The fix is ready. Do you ship it now?

  • Incident response lead
  • Developer / DevOps
  • Cloud engineer
  • CISO / Head of security
  • Privacy officer / DPO
  • Legal counsel
  • Customer support
Open exercise
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