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 making it perfect for globally dispersed teams.
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.
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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Measure and benchmark your entire workforce
By running cross-functional micro-drills and inter-team exercises, you can build a baseline picture of your organization’s crisis response capabilities.
- After-action reporting shows the impact on ongoing operations, reputation, and resilience
- Post-exercise actionable insights help you understand participants’ confidence and reasons behind their decisions
- Evidence your entire organization’s crisis response skills for capability planning and board level reporting
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Build role-specific crisis response skills
Recognize a weakness in your organization? You can build a whole scenario or specific injects to tackle the exact areas that need improvement and ensure you continually strengthen those that are already performing well.
- Role-specific exercises and injects mimic the reality of decision making
- Repeatable and customizable scenarios offer flexibility to build cognitive agility and measurable improvements
- Responses are measured at an individual, team, and organizational level for analysis and overall resilience
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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 that 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
