Your boss opened an email, clicking to read a PDF that appeared to be from a supplier—but it wasn't. Cybercriminals have slipped into your organization's systems, nabbing financial data, security credentials, and personal information—a serious issue, as you work for a defense contractor.
What do you do? Where should your technical team start? Are you even sure what's happening yet? Should customers be informed? What about the police or even the government? Who do you tell internally: the board, the legal team, PR?
Panic takes over as you realize you don't have the answers to these questions—and then, ransomware locks down your networks, with a threat to leak without payment. Breathe easy, though, as this time it's just a simulation: Hack The Box's Crisis Control. It’s a modern take on a table-top exercise that reveals how your organization would face such a crisis before criminals come knocking.
So, we know that it’s not if, it’s when cybercriminals will target organization—which means you need to start practicing your response. One solution to improve preparedness is table-top exercises (TTXs): discussion-based sessions where organizations work out a response to a potential crisis using a “choose your own adventure”-style static decision tree. But those lack realism and are inflexible, making them difficult to adapt to specific sectors or even companies, and they can easily be out of date: criminals use the latest techniques, so you need to train on them, too.
These old-fashioned wargames have had a serious upgrade. Hack The Box specializes in gamified cybersecurity upskilling, and in building Crisis Control has turned its expertise—with a dash of AI—to creating dynamic, action-based simulations for realistic, evolving scenarios to help maximize crisis preparedness across senior management and front-line professionals.
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