Digital tabletop exercises that prove your readiness under pressure

Business risk exercising is the practice of measuring and reducing the risk an organization's people introduce — through everyday decisions, susceptibility to social engineering, and behavior under pressure — rather than assuming risk is addressed once awareness training is complete. It treats business behavior as a measurable variable, not a compliance checkbox.

Awareness training delivers information and tracks completion. Business risk exercising measures what people actually do when tested against a realistic scenario — whether they recognize a phishing attempt, escalate correctly, or make a sound decision under pressure — and uses that performance data to target where risk is concentrated.

By exercising different groups against the specific risks relevant to their role — employees against everyday scenarios like phishing and data handling, leaders against crisis decision-making, and technical teams against realistic attack simulations — then aggregating performance into a picture of where risk is concentrated and how it's changing over time.

Insider risk exercising typically covers both malicious and negligent insiders — people who intentionally misuse access, and people who cause harm unintentionally through error or poor judgment. Business risk exercising through exercising directly addresses the negligent side: it builds and measures the decision-making and behavior that prevents well-meaning employees from becoming the source of an incident. It complements, rather than replaces, technical insider threat monitoring aimed at detecting malicious activity.

Third-party and supply chain relationships extend an organization's business risk beyond its own employees — a vendor's poor security behavior or a partner's mishandled access can create the same exposure as an internal gap. Exercising these relationships against realistic scenarios brings the same measurement rigor to third-party risk that's typically only applied internally.