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Six sectors. One pattern: the gaps are human, and they're fixable.
Financial Services
Challenge: Three teams owned the playbook. Nobody owned the decision.
Outcome: A single escalation path, agreed in the room and signed off by the board within a fortnight.
"The first exercise that made our executives lean forward, not check out."
Legal
Challenge: Partners assumed IT would handle a breach. IT assumed partners would lead.
Outcome: Clear duty-of-care decisions rehearsed, with regulator notification drafted in under an hour.
"We found the gap before a real attacker did. That alone paid for the session."
Public Sector
Challenge: A ransomware scenario exposed a 48-hour blind spot in resident communications.
Outcome: Holding statements, channel owners, and sign-off thresholds now agreed in advance.
"Practical, jargon-free, and uncomfortably realistic."
Healthcare
Challenge: Clinical continuity planning had never been tested against a cyber scenario.
Outcome: Paper-fallback procedures validated; two critical supplier dependencies surfaced and fixed.
"Our team left more confident, not more frightened. That is rare in this industry."
Technology
Challenge: Well-documented runbooks that nobody had run under time pressure.
Outcome: Mean decision time cut measurably between first and second exercise.
"The decision data gave our board something completion rates never could."
Charity
Challenge: Sensitive beneficiary data, no security budget, and a board unsure where to start.
Outcome: A free, funded simulation and a prioritised 90-day plan, at no cost to the charity.
"We could never have afforded this. It changed how our trustees see cyber risk."
Engagements anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
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