Tabletop exercises
Lead use case Supported nowExample: “Vendor breach tabletop”
Who it's for
For everyone around the table
Facilitators & exercise leads
Keep a structured discussion moving from one decision to the next without exposing later branches early.
Leadership & cross-functional teams
Put legal, communications, operations, and executives in the same evolving situation so they can reason through tradeoffs together.
Risk & resilience programs
Build repeatable exercises that can be revised, replayed, and adapted for a different team or incident.
Example scenario shapes
What a tabletop looks like in Cynario
Each injection is a Scene in a branching graph. The facilitator records the group’s selected response, and later injections can reflect the state accumulated during that playthrough.
Vendor breach tabletop
A supplier reports a compromise. Notify customers now, or confirm scope first? The room discusses the tradeoff, the facilitator selects the response, and the next injection follows that path.
Crisis communications drill
A story is about to break. Decisions about what to say and when shape the situations the team encounters later.
Decision under pressure
Time-boxed injections ask the team to make a call with incomplete information, then continue from the selected response.
Why facilitators use it
Structure without a slide-deck maze
- Branching injections keep the discussion moving while preserving alternate routes for another run.
- The facilitator controls when a response is selected and when the consequence is revealed.
- The Scenario remains editable, so a generic exercise can be tailored to the organization running it.
- A replay can take a different path without rebuilding the exercise.