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Halverson Power's exercise staircase of eight stages — objectives, audience, scenario, injects, facilitation, evaluation, findings and cadence — climbing from a SMART objective that the crisis team decides within 30 minutes whether to declare a reportable incident, to a multi-year calendar that escalates from tabletop to full-scale instead of one disconnected tabletop a year; a master scenario events list of timed injects forcing real decisions; and an after-action report that turns three findings repeated from two years earlier into prioritized, owned and dated actions tracked to closure.
CY-SENIOR-047Senior Level · Cyber Exercise Program

Cyber Exercise & Tabletop Program — The Exercise Staircase

A senior-level course that builds a cyber exercise program end to end. Climb the exercise staircase - eight steps: Objectives, Audience, Scenario Design, Injects, Facilitation, Evaluation, Findings to Action, and Program Cadence - setting testable objectives, mapping the right audience, designing a threat-informed scenario, building the inject list that drives the room, facilitating with real skill, evaluating objectively against the plan, turning findings into owned action, and sustaining a multi-year, regulator-aligned program. Four hands-on activities in every lesson, built from real exercise artifacts, not shell commands.

15 hours8 chapters32 lessons225 activities8 labs

What you'll learn

  • Design a cyber exercise program from testable objectives through a threat-informed scenario and a decision-forcing inject list.
  • Facilitate and evaluate exercises with skilled neutrality and objective, plan-referenced evidence.
  • Turn evaluator observations into prioritized, owned, and tracked findings that actually close.
  • Sustain a multi-year exercise program that escalates exercise types, involves partners and regulators, and is measured for maturity.

Price:৳10,000
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