What is a Gold Teaming Exercise?

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Gold teaming (crisis management) tests business continuity plans and stakeholders in realistic cybersecurity incident simulations.

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During a gold teaming exercise, SECFORCE simulates high-stakes scenarios like a major data breach to challenge your technical, executive, legal, and PR teams. Gold teaming is a tabletop exercise with the format, scenario, and intensity customised to your industry, risk profile, regulatory requirements, or recent security events.

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58% of CISOs say they are unprepared to respond to a material cyberattack in the next 12 months. We show you exactly what happens during and after an incident to get you prepared.

Gold Teaming Exercise Outcomes

Proven Crisis Decision-Making Processes

Proven Crisis Decision-Making Processes

Test your critical decision-making under pressure to spot the delays and gaps that escalate operational, financial, and reputational damage.

Tested Crisis Messaging

Tested Crisis Messaging

Develop the right messaging mix across internal and external channels to reduce brand damage and keep stakeholder trust during crisis situations.

Reduced Legal and Regulatory Risk

Reduced Legal and Regulatory Risk

Know that you can meet notification and compliance obligations accurately and on time using tested processes, minimising the risk of fines, penalties, and liability.

Accelerated Time to Recovery

Accelerated Time to Recovery

Define responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision-making authority so teams can respond decisively and rapidly during a crisis.

Who can benefit from a Gold Teaming Exercise

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Every organisation will benefit from conducting a gold teaming exercise. A tested response plan will dramatically reduce material losses if a cybersecurity incident were to occur.

Gold Teaming Scenarios

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Developing and assessing communication plans for public incident disclosures.

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Validating and improving cross-functional coordination, communication, and crisis governance across security, operations, legal, PR, and regulatory teams during an attack.

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Assessing leadership’s ability to track, forecast, and contain the financial costs and operational downtime.

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Stress testing an executive team’s ability to prioritise under extreme pressure, for example, in a crisis with immediate, conflicting financial and operational consequences.

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Identifying where the required technical controls may not be working as expected.

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Optionally, building on red and purple teaming or threat intelligence to validate how leadership would manage and recover from a real-world attack beyond the technical frontline.

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The SECFORCE way

SECFORCE are experts in preparing organisations to manage and recover from cyber incidents.

We bring an objective third party into every scenario to provide adversarial realism and bias avoidance that internal-only crisis management exercises lack.

SECFORCE’s offensive security background means we can put the same pressure on your organisation that real attackers will. You get hyper-realistic gold team scenarios that end with risk-prioritised remediation roadmaps to help you build confidence and organisational muscle memory.

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