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.
Faster incident response times post-engagement
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Of identified gaps remediated within 90 days
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Critical infrastructure sectors served
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Client retention rate for retainer partnerships
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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.
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.”
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.
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.”
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.
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."”
A multi-exercise, multi-scenario resilience program delivered over 12 months. This isn't a single engagement — it's a structured capability-building partnership that matures your organization from initial assessment through executive crisis readiness, with measurable progression at every stage.
Program Outcome
Your organization builds a documented, tested, and continuously improving cyber resilience program — with board-ready maturity progression evidence, validated crisis leadership, and a strategic roadmap that justifies ongoing investment.
For the CISO
“This is the program that builds your cyber resilience story — from first assessment to board-ready maturity. Every quarter shows measurable progress. Every report justifies the next investment. This is how you build a program, not just run an exercise.”
Ideal For
Critical infrastructure operators, regulated enterprises, and organizations with board mandates for cyber resilience maturity. Utilities, hospitals, counties, airports, and financial services with $15K+ cybersecurity exercise budgets.
Continuous advisory partnership that keeps your exercise program active, your threat intelligence current, and your leadership tested year-round.
Annual Value
$42K/year — replaces 4 standalone engagements ($30K+ value) plus continuous advisory access.
Annual Value
$60K/year — a full cyber resilience program with quarterly exercises, continuous advisory, and executive scoring.
Annual Value
$102K/year — complete cyber resilience program management with executive simulations, board reporting, and strategic advisory.
All retainer clients receive priority scheduling, dedicated advisory support, and guaranteed quarterly exercise slots.
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
From scoping call to remediation roadmap in 3–5 weeks.
We identify your sector threats, regulatory obligations, team structure, and exercise objectives. No generic questionnaires.
Custom scenario development mapped to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and your operational environment — ransomware, supply chain, insider, or cloud compromise.
Facilitated tabletop or crisis simulation with structured decision injection, real-time gap capture, and escalation pressure testing.
Findings scored against a response maturity model and mapped to NIST, CISA, and sector-specific regulatory frameworks.
Prioritized capability investments with clear implementation milestones, resource requirements, and recommended next engagements.
Extend any engagement with targeted capability-building services.
Multi-phase ransomware scenario with business impact modeling, payment decision simulation, and recovery coordination.
Complete IR playbook suite covering detection, containment, eradication, and recovery for your top threat scenarios.
Sector-specific threat model mapping OT/IT convergence risks, supply chain dependencies, and adversary targeting patterns.
Half-day intensive for C-suite on cyber crisis decision-making, media response, and regulatory communication under pressure.
Adversary emulation scenario library (3–5 scenarios) based on active threat actors targeting your sector.
Complete communications playbook for cyber incidents — internal, external, media, regulatory, and customer notification.
Follow-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.
Designed for organizations where cyber incidents create real-world operational consequences — not just data loss, but service disruption, safety risk, and community impact.
OT/IT convergence scenarios, SCADA compromise response, EPA and state regulatory alignment.
View sector details →NERC CIP, TSA pipeline directives, OT security for electric, gas, oil, and renewables.
View sector details →Multi-agency coordination, ransomware with citizen service impact, CISA alignment.
View sector details →HIPAA incident response, clinical operations continuity, patient safety decision frameworks.
View sector details →Regulatory notification exercises, third-party risk scenarios, business continuity validation.
View sector details →TSA cybersecurity directive alignment, operational technology scenarios, cross-agency coordination.
View sector details →CMMC-aligned exercises, CUI protection scenarios, supply chain cyber resilience, and federal mandate compliance.
View sector details →Scenarios built from actual adversary TTPs targeting your sector
We test real decisions: isolate the network? Notify the regulator? Talk to the media?
Every engagement maps to NIST, CISA, and sector-specific regulatory requirements
Retainer partnerships and quarterly exercises ensure readiness grows over time
Scorecards and board briefings create documented evidence of leadership preparedness
Most clients start with an assessment, then build a program.
$7.5K
First exercise. Document gaps. Build the case.
$15K
Maturity scoring. Playbook recommendations. Executive accountability.
$35K
Board-level simulation. Cross-department. Remediation roadmap.
$3.5–8.5K/mo
Quarterly exercises. Continuous advisory. Maturity tracking.
What CISOs and IR leads ask before their first engagement.
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.
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. Most clients who start here move to the Operational tier within 6 months because the first exercise reveals exactly what to build next.
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.
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."
Absolutely start with one team. Many clients begin with their IT/security team for the first exercise, then expand to include legal, communications, and executive leadership in subsequent engagements. The land-and-expand model is how most enterprise programs get built — prove value first, then scale.
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.
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.
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 framework we use with clients to turn exercise findings into measurable capability improvements. Includes prioritization matrix, board reporting templates, and milestone tracking.
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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.