Evalian tailors every exercise to its audience. Whether you are preparing a boardroom, sharpening a technical team, or stress-testing a dedicated incident response function, the scenario is built around you.
Understand your exposure, rehearse crisis communications & test your decision-making under pressure.
Run through realistic attack scenarios, test your detection & response tooling & identify gaps in your escalation procedures.
Stress-test your Incident Response Plans, refine your playbooks & build the processes your team needs to respond with confidence.
Validate governance processes, workflows & cross-functional plans so you can respond effectively under regulatory pressure.
Every Evalian Incident Response exercise follows a proven four-stage structure; from tailored scenario design through to a written report, your team can act on.
 | Exercise Introduction We set the scene based on your agreed scenarios and provide context on your incident detection capabilities, information-sharing processes, and stakeholder relationships. |
 | Scenario & escalations Using scenario injects, we test your responses to specific issues that arise during an incident and pose questions about governance, notification obligations, and communications. |
 | Post-exercise debrief A facilitated wrap-up discussion helps your team identify overall response capability, surface gaps, and agree immediate priorities, while the experience is still fresh. |
 | Report & recommendations Our written report documents findings, highlights strengths, and sets out specific, prioritised recommendations for improving your incident response capability. |
We’ll outline the right exercise for your organisation.
We can deliver a single exercise based on one extended scenario, or structure the day around multiple shorter exercises covering different threat types. On-site sessions can be combined with interactive workshops on the most relevant threats to your sector.
When you request a quote, you will be matched with an experienced consultant who specialises in cyber incident response. We work with you in advance to understand your environment fully, so the exercise feels real, not generic.
What we gather from you before the exercise:
Media coverage, social commentary, and regulatory scrutiny happen fast, often before the technical response is underway. Yet most exercise providers stop at the IT response.
Evalian builds bespoke television news reports, social media mock-ups, and newspaper front pages into your scenario. So when your communications director is asked, “What do we say to the press?”, your team has already practised the answer under pressure.
Generic exercises tell you how your team performs against a generic incident. A tailored exercise tells you how your team performs against the incidents that could actually affect you.
We invest time upfront to understand your sector, your systems, your sensitive data, and your specific threat landscape. The result is a scenario that feels uncomfortably realistic to your attendees, which is precisely the point.
Exercises can be structured around a single extended scenario or broken into multiple shorter exercises covering different threat types across the day. An interactive workshop on relevant threats can be added before or after.
– Neil Tindall, Domestic Bursar, St John’s College
We’ll ask you about your operations, your IR plans and teams, size, structure and systems, and outline the right exercise for your organisation.
Your first line of defence is your team. By ensuring your incident response team and wider workforce have a good understanding of cyber security risks, you have taken the first step to creating a more robust security posture and being able to respond to a cyber incident effectively.
By participating in a cyber incident response exercise, you will improve:
Incident Response scenarios are an effective way for organisations to test their resilience and IRPs as well as educate their workforce on what to do in the event of a cyber incident.
Cyber incident response exercises are set on real-world scenarios which are observed by the team – the cyber incident response service provider will then ask the team questions on the scenario based on how they would respond to the scenario.
Questions asked may include things like:
Some example cyber incident scenarios might involve: