Cyber Response Exercise

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When cyber incidents strike, they escalate fast. This module simulates a targeted cyber event in real time, helping your team respond with speed, clarity, and technical precision when every second counts.

Cyber Response Exercise in four steps. How we do resilience at Fixinc.

01.

Plan

Agile, first-principles planning ensures a smooth rollout of your refreshed program.

02.

We will ensure Cyber Response Exercise is rolled out smoothly at your organisation.

03.

check

Your Cyber Response Exercise is draft until validated, we will fix that.

04.

act

Your team and ours will be ready when your Cyber Response Exercise is activate in real-life.

Fixinc facilitates live-fire cyber response exercises built on real-world threat intelligence, including ransomware, phishing, credential compromise, and infrastructure outages. Scenarios are customised to your systems, people, and sector. These aren’t just boardroom drills, they’re end-to-end simulations involving technical leads, security teams, comms, and executives. We integrate this with your Digital BIA data to simulate cascading impacts across systems and functions, and include optional use of our F24 platform to test comms and coordination.

We don’t run generic "cyber tabletop" sessions, we build simulations with technical realism, threat recency, and multi-layered complexity. Fixinc is one of the only providers in Oceania with government-cleared ITDR advisors and deep experience in regulated environments. Whether you're defending critical infrastructure or responding to a brand attack, we prepare your team for real-world cyber events that don’t wait for a meeting to start.

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What you can expect when you start Cyber Response Exercise with us.

Meet who you'll talk to

Link to chat

A link will be sent to you via email from our Advisory team. You get to pick a time to chat that's convenient to you - over the phone, Teams, Zoom, or in person.

30-45 minutes

Tell us what your objectives are. We have a set of questions ready to go for you. We'll share 'how we do things', and give you a chance for any Q&A you have.

Proposal & Quote

We will get you a proposal within 24 hours detailing the scope of work. 1 week later, we will discuss it. 10 minutes later you will have a final quote from us to sign.

5 Weeks

Our clients expect us to be working for them, not chasing proposals. If it's not signed off within 5 weeks, we'll assume it's not the right time.

Review & Health Check

All Cyber Response Exercise we implement start with a deep review of what's already in place. We set benchmarks formed from best practice and ISO standards.

Design and Develop

With as much involvement as neccersary from your team, we'll build out the Cyber Response Exercise part of your ITDR program to the very highest quality available.

Validate

Where appropriate, we will test and validate your new Cyber Response Exercise discipline. This provides tangible evidence of capability and maturity to your stakeholders.

Maintain

The number one set back for organisations who embed resilience is momentum. We'll build a plan to ensure your Cyber Response Exercise runs annually.

Additional ITDR Disciplines. Expand your Cyber Response Exercise.

We have carefully selected the most impactful and relevant ITDR disciplines that will ensure a modern organisation can withstand and thrive through even the worst the threat landscape can throw at us. Explore some below.

ITDR Component Testing

Your recovery process is only as strong as its weakest part. This module tests individual ITDR components, from backup systems to restoration protocols, so nothing fails when everything's on the line.

Disaster Recovery Training

Disaster recovery doesn’t start with the IT team, it starts with everyone who relies on them. This module trains leaders, operators, and support teams to understand ITDR, their role in it, and how to respond when technology fails.

ITDR Test Exercise

A recovery plan that hasn’t been tested is just theory. This module simulates a real-world IT disaster to test how your team responds, what breaks down, and where recovery needs to move faster.

ITDR System Analysis

If you don’t know how your systems connect, you won’t know what’s failing, or what to recover first. This module maps your infrastructure, uncovers risks, and gives you the visibility to lead with confidence during a disruption.

ITDR Training

A disaster recovery plan is only as strong as the people running it. This module turns ITDR knowledge into team-wide capability, clear, confident, and ready to act when systems go down.

ITDR Business Impact Analysis Report

Data means nothing if it’s not communicated clearly. This module delivers a clean, structured report from your ITDR Business Impact Analysis, giving your leaders the insight they need to act with confidence.

IT Applications and Systems Mapping

You can’t recover what you can’t see. This module maps every application and system in your environment, so you know what’s critical, what’s connected, and what’s at risk.

ITDR Plan Training for Technical Teams

Technical teams don’t need theory, they need to know exactly what to do when the pressure hits. This module trains your IT and infrastructure teams on the recovery plan they’ll execute when systems go down.

ITDR Program Review and Audit

If you’re not reviewing your ITDR program regularly, you’re just hoping it’ll work. This module audits your entire recovery capability, systems, people, and plans, to ensure they’re aligned, current, and ready.

ITDR Plan Development

Your disaster recovery plan is the playbook your team turns to when things go wrong. This module ensures that plan is built around reality, clean, accessible, and aligned to how your systems and people actually operate.

ITDR Business Impact Analysis

Not all systems are created equal, and in a disaster, knowing what to recover first can be the difference between delay and disaster. This module focuses your IT recovery on what actually matters to your business.

ITDR Threat Analysis

You can’t defend what you don’t see coming. This module analyses the evolving threat landscape, so your disaster recovery plans stay ahead of the next outage, breach, or breakdown.

Frequently asked Cyber Response Exercise questions.

How do we know when our Cyber Response Exercise activity is fully effective?

We validate success through exercises, engagement, and outcomes. If your Cyber Response Exercise effort drives action, conversation, and continuous use — it's working.

What does the Cyber Response Exercise discipline involve when delivered by Fixinc?

Cyber Response Exercise at Fixinc is built to be clear, structured, and aligned with our Tungsten Diamond lifecycle. It's tailored to your program maturity and backed by real-world application.

How is Cyber Response Exercise different from traditional approaches we've seen?

Unlike templated models, our Cyber Response Exercise work adapts to the client's sector, stakeholders, and risk profile. It's hands-on, flexible, and always validated.

Does Cyber Response Exercise link to other services or tools you offer?

Yes — Cyber Response Exercise often feeds into our other services like planning, validation, or digital tools. We design it to integrate, not sit in a silo.

What kind of outcomes can we expect from engaging in Cyber Response Exercise?

Clients typically gain clarity, leadership alignment, and a measurable shift in preparedness through our Cyber Response Exercise delivery — no matter their starting point.

Still have questions?

Over a no-obligation call, we will walk you through how are tools work for you to determine if they're right for you.

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