Realistic breach simulations and crisis exercises that stress-test your organization's decision-making, communication, and coordination under pressure — from the SOC floor to the boardroom.
When a major cyber incident strikes, the organizations that survive with their reputation and operations intact are not the ones with the most expensive tools — they are the ones that practiced. Cyber wargaming puts your leadership, technical teams, legal counsel, communications staff, and business units through realistic crisis scenarios so that when a real incident occurs, muscle memory takes over instead of panic.
Mjolnir designs and facilitates cyber wargaming exercises based on our experience managing 580+ real-world incident response engagements. Our scenarios are not theoretical — they are drawn from actual breaches we have responded to, adapted to your industry, regulatory environment, and organizational structure. Participants face the same ambiguity, time pressure, and competing priorities that characterize real cyber crises.
Every exercise is tailored to the audience. Technical tabletop exercises test SOC analysts and IR teams on detection and containment procedures. Executive wargames test C-suite decision-making on disclosure, communication, legal, and business continuity. Board-level scenarios educate directors on their governance responsibilities and the strategic implications of cyber risk.
Tabletop exercises are discussion-based simulations where participants walk through a cyber incident scenario, making decisions and discussing responses at each stage. Our facilitators inject new developments, complications, and escalations to test how teams adapt under pressure and whether response procedures are practical and well-understood.
Breach simulations go beyond discussion to test actual processes and tools. Participants respond to simulated alerts, make containment decisions with incomplete information, draft communications under time pressure, and coordinate across departments — all while the scenario evolves based on their decisions.
When a major cyber incident occurs, executive leadership must make high-stakes decisions with limited information and immense time pressure. Should we pay the ransom? When do we notify regulators? What do we tell customers? Do we involve law enforcement? These decisions have legal, financial, and reputational consequences that can define the organization's future.
Boards of directors bear ultimate governance responsibility for cybersecurity risk. Our board-level wargames educate directors on the cyber threat landscape, test their understanding of organizational response capabilities, and prepare them for the strategic decisions they may face during a significant cyber event.
Our scenarios are built from 580+ actual incident response engagements, not hypothetical situations. Participants face the same ambiguity, pressure, and competing priorities that characterize real cyber crises in their industry.
Cyber incidents are not just IT problems. Our exercises engage security, legal, HR, communications, executive leadership, and board members — testing the cross-functional coordination that determines whether a crisis is managed or spirals out of control.
Every exercise produces a detailed after-action report documenting what worked, what failed, and specific recommendations for improving response procedures, communication plans, decision-making frameworks, and technical controls.
The worst time to discover that your incident response plan does not work is during an actual incident. A cyber wargame reveals the gaps, builds the muscle memory, and ensures your organization is ready when it matters most.