Cyber Crisis Simulator
Practice Makes Perfect, but how we practice also makes a huge difference. Choose Crisis Sim…
Our Crisis Sim service provides realistic scenarios for learning, either individually, collectively, or as a fully-facilitated exercise.
Real-world scenarios for team exercising, creating memorable experiences that help mitigate potential threats and promote collaboration.
Get ahead of the game, and open up your team’s possibilities to protect you and your organisation.
Crisis Sim Highlights
You can enhance your performance while minimising potential risks.
Crisis simulations are based on real-life scenarios or are designed bespoke for your company.
Understand your readiness, preparedness, and ability to respond to a cyber-attack.
Align your departments to bring them together so
everyone understands their roles.
Gamified – Engaging fun for your whole team.
No more death by PowerPoint…
Our Service
Prepare to be amazed because we’re taking things to a new level regarding tabletop simulations for cyber crises and attacks.
Traditional methods fall short by being unengaging and lacking an opportunity to learn, leaving your team with a distorted perception of the cyber threat.
Put your team to the test!
Make sure you’re up to date with the latest Crisis Simulation techniques
We recommend regular exercising to build up muscle memory and resilience in the event of a real cyber breach. Understand your organisation’s readiness for cyber-attacks by using a unique gamified service, using highly relevant scenarios which can be crafted to suit your business needs. Gain valuable insights into how your organisation can improve your ability to respond to future attacks.
Crisis Sim in action
Each of the simulations and scenarios we deliver are based on real-life cybersecurity scenarios. We can also create new fully customised exercises, aligned with your business continuity and incident response plans, which would be agreed upon through consultation. Finally, after the Sim, the results will be presented together with a set of recommendations on suggested areas of improvement and consideration.
Our Observations
As we all know there is always room for improvement. As such, we will create a document with all of our observations including the results report, which will outline your performance. From there we can identify gaps in your team and recommend ways to improve.
Results Report: A scenario breakdown, a summary of outcomes and detailed breakdown of every question.
Check out how Crisis Sim aligns to NIST
We outline how the combination of technology, people, and process in the context of NIST will greatly improve the outcomes for our customers.
Today’s Risks and Challenges
In the UK the estimated cost of cybercrime is £27bn and there have been a lot of high-profile attacks such as the HSE Ransomware attack in Ireland as well DDoS attacks at the Port of London Authority as well as the UK Foreign Office website being taken over by attackers.
The evidence shows that cyber-attacks are on the Increase with 39% of UK companies reporting security breaches. However, figures also show that just 1 In 5 companies have a formal Incident response plan, even though 82% of board members rate cyber security as a high priority.
How can you make sure you are ready for an attack?
Central to an organisation becoming incident response ready is the combination of People, Processes and Technology. We need to equip everyone. It Is not just an IT problem; you need to train and empower your team across your whole business and ensure and embrace collaborative working to ensure the people and processes are all aligned. Each department needs to practice how they can play their part in protecting the business across all functions, just like first aid training.
If you have the certificate for the training and someone is unwell, would you be able to perform CPR?
Key Questions around Crisis Simulator
Why is it not just a senior board exercise?
You need to evidence that your entire organisation has been equipped to respond to any disruption. Traditionally, when you run a tabletop exercise to prepare yourself for any incident you focus on the senior management and the board level. These individuals are highly experienced but are unlikely to know all of the intricacies of your organisation. You, therefore, need to evidence and exercise the wider organisations to discover the secondary impacts of decisions that may be made in a crisis scenario. You can truly understand the consequences of your actions when you take part in an Immersive Labs Crisis Simulation.
Why is it great for senior stakeholders?
It gives stakeholders an engaging insight into the capabilities of their teams, but also directly looks at the impact that their decision-making will have on the business. It will also unearth the unknown issues that may materialise as secondary impacts from disruption.
What are the key outcomes?
It’s all about evidencing the capabilities of your different teams and their decision-making, but also if they understand their roles and responsibilities. Do they understand where key information and experience lies in your company, it’s not always where you think it is. It is only through regular exercise will you being to learn where your key assets lie.
Building Muscle Memory
We like to use the following analogy to describe the platform as being similar to CPR training. If your boss was to fall unconscious, do you have the muscle memory and the continual up-skilling to jump into action? Well, its the same during a cyber security incidence, you need to build that confidence over time to be able to tackle these scenarios.
Benchmarking to improve your response
Equipping your workforce is essential to success, traditional training won’t cut it anymore, we all hate ‘death by PowerPoint’ and it won’t enable your team to have the ability to respond to a cyber threat. Walking them through a playbook in a traditional exercise won’t do anything to engage your team. By taking part in an engaging exercise, you will begin to understand the impacts of different decision making.
Exercising your response to cyber threats
The platform exercises and evidences the capabilities of organisations to respond to cyber threats. CyberPro Labs are great at evidencing your security team’s performance. Crisis Sim is great at exercising your board-level incidence response plans. Team Sim Scenario is a powerful tool to exercise your organisation’s response and collaboration as a whole in the face of a cyber threat.
Complying with new FCA Regulations
Firms need to comply with the new FCA Regulations around Operational Resilience. They need to be able to absorb and respond to new cyber security threats in an appropriate way. But they also need to demonstrate to shareholders, but most importantly to regulators that they are constantly evolving their approach to exercising and evidencing their capability to respond. This is a continuous journey for all organisations. Organisations will need to comply with the new FCA Regulations by 2025, they have to be able to demonstrate they are evolving their programme of training and exercising.
Crisis Simulation (AAS) Terms and Conditions