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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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OT / ICSAdvancedTechnical 2 h 30 min

The safety system trips while you are hunting an intruder in the plant

You are on day two of investigating suspicious traffic inside the control network of a chemical blending plant. Responders have a laptop on the OT switch capturing packets. At 14:20 the safety instrumented system trips reactor R-3 on high pressure, venting to the flare and closing the feed valves. The control room saw the pressure transmitter spike, but two field gauges read normal throughout. Operators want to reset the safety system and restart the batch, which is worth $400,000. The responders want the safety controller left untouched until they know whether anyone has reached it. Who decides?

  • OT / plant engineer
  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
  • SOC analyst
  • IT operations
Open exercise
M&AAdvancedMixed 2 h 30 min

An inherited intruder found after the acquisition closes

Ninety days after closing the purchase of a 500-person engineering firm, your team starts connecting its network to yours. EDR, newly installed on their servers, flags a scheduled task that calls out to an external host every six hours. It has existed since before the deal was announced. The two Active Directory forests already share a trust, and 40 of the firm's admins have accounts in your environment. Integration milestones are tied to executive bonuses. Do you cut the trust today?

  • Incident response lead
  • CISO / Head of security
  • IT operations
  • SOC analyst
  • CIO / CTO
  • Legal counsel
  • CFO / Finance
Open exercise
NetworkAdvancedMixed 2 h 30 min

Espionage discovered eight months after it began

A government agency privately tells your aerospace components firm that an intruder linked to a foreign intelligence service has been in your engineering network for about eight months. They share three indicators and ask you not to tip off the attacker. Your logs go back 90 days. The intruder appears to use legitimate admin tools rather than malware. Your largest customer is a defence prime with contractual reporting duties. Do you watch, or evict? And what do you tell anyone?

  • CISO / Head of security
  • Incident response lead
  • SOC analyst
  • Legal counsel
  • CEO / Managing director
  • IT operations
  • Board member
Open exercise
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