Cyber Resilience
Exercise & Advisory
We don't run exercises — we build cyber resilience programs. Every engagement pressure-tests your organization's ability to detect, decide, escalate, and coordinate under realistic threat conditions.
Delivering measurable capability improvement aligned to NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, and CISA frameworks — not just a compliance checkbox.
Capability dimensions scored per exercise
NIST 800-61 aligned
Core deliverables auto-generated from one exercise
IR playbook · triage · comms · RCA · gap remediation
Typical exercise-to-shipped AAR cycle
most engagements, every tier
Rule-based engine — works without LLM access
no Anthropic key required to run
Cyber Readiness Assessment
Threat-informed tabletop exercise with structured capability assessment. Your organization learns exactly how it responds to a real incident — where decisions stall, coordination breaks, and gaps create operational risk.
- Threat scenario exercise design (sector-specific, MITRE ATT&CK-mapped)
- Facilitated incident response tabletop (half-day)
- Operational Response Capability Assessment (NIST 800-61 aligned)
- Coordination gap analysis with escalation mapping
- Interactive After-Action Review
- Incident decision playbook template
- Facilitator & participant guides
- Written summary report with prioritized findings
Outcome
Your organization understands how it actually responds to a cyber incident — and has documented evidence for your board, insurer, and regulators.
Ideal For
Organizations conducting their first structured exercise, annual compliance requirements, or teams building a repeatable exercise program.
For the CISO
“A defensible, evidence-based view of your incident response posture — something you can take to the board, your insurer, and your regulators.”
Operational Cyber Resilience Program
Full capability-building engagement that moves your organization from ad-hoc response to documented, tested operational readiness — with maturity scoring, executive accountability, and a remediation roadmap.
- Everything in Cyber Readiness Assessment
- Custom adversary scenario development (active threat landscape)
- Threat actor scenario mapping (tested vs. untested TTPs)
- Incident escalation decision tree (technical → executive)
- Executive Response Scorecard (decision speed, quality, coordination)
- Response Maturity Assessment (5-level model, NIST CSF aligned)
- Crisis communication templates (ransomware, breach, disruption)
- Response playbook recommendations with implementation priorities
- Threat actor landscape briefing as part of the engagement
- Priority advisory support (48h response)
Outcome
Your organization moves from ad-hoc incident response to documented, tested operational readiness — with measurable maturity and decision frameworks that work under pressure.
Ideal For
Mid-market and regulated organizations, infrastructure operators, and teams with board-level cyber risk accountability.
For the CISO
“Tested escalation paths, scored executive readiness, and a maturity baseline you can improve against quarter over quarter. This turns a one-time exercise into a measurable capability program.”
Enterprise Cyber Crisis Simulation
Executive-level crisis simulation testing strategic decision-making, cross-department coordination, and board governance under realistic threat conditions. The engagement your board, regulators, and insurers need to see.
- Everything in Operational Cyber Resilience Program
- Full-day on-site crisis simulation (multi-phase, escalating injects)
- Executive crisis leadership simulation (C-suite / board track)
- Cross-department coordination testing (IT, legal, comms, ops, executive)
- Ransomware business impact scenario (operational + financial + regulatory)
- Board-level response briefing (presentation-ready)
- Executive After-Action Report (timeline, decisions, framework scoring)
- 60-day remediation roadmap with milestones and resource requirements
- Regulatory framework alignment documentation
- 30-day post-exercise advisory support
Outcome
Your organization gains executive-level cyber crisis readiness — tested leadership, validated coordination, and a funded remediation plan that satisfies governance, regulatory, and insurance requirements.
Ideal For
Enterprises, critical infrastructure operators, regulated industries, and organizations with board-level cyber risk governance obligations.
For the CISO
“This is the engagement you bring to the board. It demonstrates that leadership has been tested, gaps are documented, and a funded remediation plan exists. The difference between "we have a plan" and "we've proven our plan works."”
Year-round readiness
Per-engagement work above. Annual programs give your team scheduled exercise cadence, continuous readiness scoring, and an advisor who knows your environment.
Readiness Baseline
Quarterly exercises that build muscle memory. Your team practices four times a year, tracks readiness scores, and closes gaps between exercises.
See full details on /pricingCyber Resilience Program
The program that justifies your security budget. 8 exercises, executive scorecards, compliance evidence, and an advisor who knows your environment.
See full details on /pricingStrategic Command
Monthly exercises, a dedicated facilitator, and board-ready briefings. Your executive team practices crisis leadership until it becomes instinct.
See full details on /pricingAll annual program details, deliverables, and Stripe checkout live on the pricing page.
Not another tabletop vendor
What consulting firms sell vs. what After Action delivers.
Typical Vendor
After Action
A tabletop exercise
A cyber resilience exercise program
A checklist of findings
An operational capability assessment
A generic report
An executive-ready board briefing with maturity scoring
One engagement
Quarterly exercises, retainer advisory, and maturity tracking
Framework buzzwords
Mapped, scored alignment to NIST 800-61, CSF, and MITRE ATT&CK
Project-based billing
A resilience program with predictable advisory partnership
How an engagement works
From scoping call to remediation roadmap in 3–5 weeks.
Scope & Threat Alignment
We identify your sector threats, regulatory obligations, team structure, and exercise objectives. No generic questionnaires.
Scenario Design
Custom scenario development mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and your operational environment — ransomware, supply chain, insider, or cloud compromise.
Exercise Execution
Facilitated tabletop or crisis simulation with structured decision injection, real-time gap capture, and escalation pressure testing.
After-Action Analysis
Findings scored against a response maturity model and mapped to NIST, CISA, and sector-specific regulatory frameworks.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritized capability investments with clear implementation milestones, resource requirements, and recommended next engagements.
Advisory Add-Ons
Extend any engagement with targeted capability-building services.
Custom Ransomware Response Simulation
$8,000Multi-phase ransomware scenario with business impact modeling, payment decision simulation, and recovery coordination.
Incident Response Playbook Development
$12,000Complete IR playbook suite covering detection, containment, eradication, and recovery for your top threat scenarios.
Critical Infrastructure Threat Modeling
$10,000Sector-specific threat model mapping OT/IT convergence risks, supply chain dependencies, and adversary targeting patterns.
Executive Crisis Leadership Training
$15,000Half-day intensive for C-suite on cyber crisis decision-making, media response, and regulatory communication under pressure.
Red Team Scenario Development
$20,000Adversary emulation scenario library (3–5 scenarios) based on active threat actors targeting your sector.
Crisis Communications Strategy
$8,000Complete communications playbook for cyber incidents — internal, external, media, regulatory, and customer notification.
Response Maturity Re-Assessment
$5,000Follow-up assessment measuring capability improvement against your initial baseline. Recommended at 6 months.
Add-ons can be bundled with any tier engagement or retainer. Custom scoping available.
Purpose-built for operational resilience
Designed for organizations where cyber incidents create real-world operational consequences — not just data loss, but service disruption, safety risk, and community impact.
Water & Wastewater Utilities
OT/IT convergence scenarios, SCADA compromise response, EPA and state regulatory alignment.
View sector details →Energy & Utilities
NERC CIP, TSA pipeline directives, OT security for electric, gas, oil, and renewables.
View sector details →Counties & Municipal Government
Multi-agency coordination, ransomware with citizen service impact, CISA alignment.
View sector details →Hospitals & Health Systems
HIPAA incident response, clinical operations continuity, patient safety decision frameworks.
View sector details →Insurance & Financial Services
Regulatory notification exercises, third-party risk scenarios, business continuity validation.
View sector details →Airports & Transportation
TSA cybersecurity directive alignment, operational technology scenarios, cross-agency coordination.
View sector details →Defense Industrial Base
CMMC-aligned exercises, CUI protection scenarios, supply chain cyber resilience, and federal mandate compliance.
View sector details →Threat-Informed
Scenarios built from actual adversary TTPs targeting your sector
Operational Focus
We test real decisions: isolate the network? Notify the regulator? Talk to the media?
Framework Aligned
Every engagement maps to NIST, CISA, and sector-specific regulatory requirements
Program Continuity
Retainer partnerships and quarterly exercises ensure readiness grows over time
Executive Accountability
Scorecards and board briefings create documented evidence of leadership preparedness
How organizations engage with us
The recommended path: start with an assessment, then build a program.
Cyber Readiness Assessment
$7.5K
First exercise. Document gaps. Build the case.
Operational Resilience
$15K
Maturity scoring. Playbook recommendations. Executive accountability.
Enterprise Simulation
$35K
Board-level simulation. Cross-department. Remediation roadmap.
Advisory Retainer
$4–13K/mo
Quarterly exercises. Continuous advisory. Maturity tracking.
Common questions
What CISOs and IR leads ask before their first engagement.
How long does an engagement take from kickoff to final deliverables?
Most engagements complete in 3–5 weeks. Week 1 is scoping and scenario design. Weeks 2–3 are exercise preparation and facilitation. Weeks 3–5 are analysis, reporting, and the After-Action Review. Larger enterprise simulations may extend to 6–8 weeks depending on cross-department coordination requirements.
We've never done a tabletop exercise before. Where should we start?
The Cyber Readiness Assessment ($7,500) is specifically designed as a first engagement. It gives you a structured, facilitated exercise with a full capability assessment — not a pass/fail test. The exercise is designed to reveal exactly what to build next — expect it to scope your next six months of readiness work.
Do you work with our existing incident response plan, or replace it?
We work with what you have. The exercise tests your current plans, procedures, and team coordination under realistic conditions. Our deliverables identify specific gaps and provide actionable recommendations — not a wholesale replacement. If you don't have a formal IR plan, the exercise itself becomes the foundation for building one.
What makes this different from compliance-driven exercises our auditors run?
Compliance exercises check a box. Our exercises build capability. We use active threat intelligence and MITRE ATT&CK-mapped scenarios from real adversaries targeting your sector. Every finding is scored against a maturity model with a remediation roadmap — so your board sees measurable improvement, not just "exercise completed."
Can we start with one department or does it need to be organization-wide?
Absolutely start with one team. The recommended pattern is to begin with your IT/security team for the first exercise, then expand to legal, communications, and executive leadership in subsequent engagements — prove value first, then scale.
How do you handle sensitive findings and exercise data?
All engagement materials, findings, and exercise data are confidential. We sign NDAs before scoping begins. Deliverables are shared only with designated stakeholders. We never reference client names, findings, or scenarios in marketing materials without explicit written consent.
What's the difference between a one-time engagement and a retainer?
A single engagement gives you a snapshot — here's where you stand today. A retainer gives you a program — quarterly exercises, continuous advisory, maturity tracking, and a dedicated partner who knows your environment. The retainer is how you show your board and insurers that readiness is improving over time, not just assessed once.
Do you support regulatory and insurance requirements?
Yes. Every engagement produces documentation aligned to NIST 800-61, NIST CSF, CISA, and sector-specific frameworks (NERC CIP, HIPAA, TSA directives). Our After-Action Reports and maturity assessments are specifically designed to satisfy board governance requirements, regulatory examinations, and cyber insurance renewal evidence.
The CISO's 30/60/90 Day Post-Exercise Roadmap
The framework we use with clients to turn exercise findings into measurable capability improvements. Includes prioritization matrix, board reporting templates, and milestone tracking.
- 30-day quick wins with immediate risk reduction
- 60-day capability building milestones
- 90-day maturity scoring and board reporting
- Budget justification templates for remediation spend
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Ready to pressure-test your response capability?
A 30-minute scoping call is all it takes to design an engagement that builds real operational readiness.
Every After-Action Report is your roadmap for the next engagement. Each gap we identify becomes a capability you can build — with us or independently. We're building your program, not your dependency.