Crisis Simulator
Traditional tabletop exercising doesn’t go far enough. There, we said it. It’s difficult to bring the workforce together, the results and opportunity for learning are limited, and more often than not, they’re truly unengaging.
Immersive Labs’ Crisis Simulator drops teams into truly dynamic scenarios based on real crises. Unlike linear tabletops, our content reflects how a crisis unfolds in the real world – you never know what wicked problem you’ll face next. This maximizes organizations’ crisis preparation, engages participants with exciting storylines and contextual media, and embeds learning through muscle memory. Delivered entirely through the browser, the Crisis Sim removes the organizational burden of traditional tabletopping is more relevant for globally dispersed teams.
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Improve cyber response
Immersive Labs empowers technical and non-technical teams to run, build, and evidence their own realistic cyber crisis exercises. With a regular cadence of exercising, teams can build muscle memory and enhance their resilience in a crisis.
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Make better informed decisions
The platform gathers data from the regular exercising of incident response across individuals, teams, and the organization as a whole. You can use these reports to better inform your crisis strategies and even improve your hiring practices.
Drop your teams into real crises
Crisis Sims are based on the latest cybersecurity threats and are designed to simulate the real-world crises your organization is likely to face, from ransomware attacks to a supply chain compromises.
- Dynamic storylines and rich media provide insight on the direct effect that decisions have on your organization
- Rich media images, videos, and voice notes add a realistic element to the scenario, adding to the pressure you’d experience in a real crisis
- Customization ensures the true relevance to the threats your organization faces
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Cyber Workforce Benchmark 2022
Through analysis of results from our ransomware simulations, we found that 25% of organizations in the education sector paid ransom whereas not a single crisis response team in the infrastructure sector capitulated to demands.
18 months. 2,100 organizations. 500,000 cyber exercises. What did we discover about the world’s cyber workforce capabilities? Dive into the data with us to find out.
Cyber workforce optimization and crisis response
With financial, reputational, regulatory, legal and technical impact, responding effectively to the modern cyber crisis requires knowledge, skills and judgment across the entire workforce. However, organizations often lack a way to prove cross functional crisis response capabilities, and how this plays into wider resilience. Immersive Labs’ focus on Cyber Workforce Optimization can fill this data gap.
The Thailand Banking Sector Computer Emergency Response Team (TB-CERT) needed an exercise solution that could be delivered remotely to its 27 member banks – equating to hundreds of users across the sector. TB-CERT delivered a successful event alongside Kroll’s security risk team by developing an exercise using Immersive Labs’ Cyber Crisis Simulator. The process took less than a month from start to finish.
Realistic simulation of current threats is the only way to test and improve response readiness and to ensure the impact of a real attack is minimized. Immersive Labs’ innovative platform, combined with Kroll’s extensive experience, provides the closest thing to replication of a real incident – all within a safe, virtual environment.
- Paul Jackson, Regional Managing Director, APAC Cyber Risk, Kroll
Crisis Simulator Resources
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Three Steps to Ultimate Cyber Resilience
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Crisis Simulator Frequently Asked Questions
Immersive Labs’ Crisis Simulator takes crisis exercising a huge step further than traditional tabletopping. Realistic scenarios allow all members of the team – whether that’s individually, collectively, or as a facilitated exercise – to learn and practice how to respond to crises effectively and realistically. Scenarios are written in a way that leads to specific data output around confidence and performance, so organizations can build muscle memory in key areas and understand what areas need improvement with in-depth, data-led analysis.
Offensive security courses and certifications go out of date the minute they are completed because new threat actors and techniques are constantly emerging. With new labs released all the time, red teams can constantly stay up to date with new technologies and risks.
Immersive Labs’ catalog content covers crucially relevant topics like data breaches, ransomware attacks, phishing, and supply chain compromises in the form of exciting crisis scenarios arising from chatbot hacks, poisoned water facilities, insider threats, IT and OT collisions, and even hospital, university, and vehicle factory meltdowns. Our catalog content has sims in a number of sectors, including finance, government, energy, telecommunications, healthcare, retail, and more! Every scenario is fully customizable, so you can edit an existing sim or build your own from scratch to suit your organization’s needs.
As long as you want! Crisis Sims are fully customizable to suit your unique timescales. Immersive Labs’ catalog scenarios can be undertaken as a team drill, interactive facilitated presentation, or assigned to an individual to complete asynchronously, so runtime varies in length. On average, an individual could complete a short scenario in 30 minutes, whereas a facilitated exercise can take anywhere up to a few hours (or more!) to allow for discussion, breaks, or extra activities.
