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ITU · Global Cybersecurity Capacity Building
Cyber Resilience Tabletop Exercise
A facilitated, scenario-based simulation where national teams invest scarce budget and people to build cybersecurity capabilities, weather real-world crises, and cooperate across borders — turning strategy theory into hands-on decisions.
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Capability domains
47+
Capability cards
5
Nations at the table
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Rounds of play
Enter the exercise
Captains and facilitators receive their username and password from the exercise organiser.
Username
Password
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What to expect
A serious game with real strategic stakes
Each team leads a nation with a limited budget and a small expert workforce. Together you decide where to invest first, how to sequence dependent capabilities, and how to respond when cyber crises strike the region — all under a live clock and guided by expert facilitators.
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Lead a nation
Manage a national budget and workforce. Every decision is a trade-off between cost, effort and long-term resilience.
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Build a capability tree
Play capability cards that unlock one another. Foundational investments open advanced options in later rounds.
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Face live injects
Ransomware, supply-chain compromise and disinformation hit each round. Preparation decides how hard they land.
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Cooperate across borders
Trade specialists, sign agreements and coordinate with neighbours — international ties reduce shared risk.
How it works
From briefing to debrief
The exercise runs in short, timed rounds. Facilitators keep the tempo, drop crises into the story and lead the reflection that turns each decision into a lesson.
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Get your mandate
Receive your nation's profile, objectives, starting budget and workforce at your captain's table.
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Plan your round
Choose which capability cards to build this turn, weighing prerequisites, cost and people against the threats ahead.
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Weather the injects
Crises resolve based on the capabilities you built. Being ready turns a disaster into a manageable incident.
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Debrief & learn
Break to compare strategies, then close with a facilitated debrief connecting play back to real national policy.
The six domains
Balanced cyber capacity, the way maturity models measure it
Capabilities span the domains used by international cybersecurity capacity assessments. A resilient nation invests across all six rather than over-indexing on one.
Strategy & governance
Plans, authorities and national direction
Laws & regulation
Legal frameworks and standards
Technical & operations
CSIRTs, detection and response
People & skills
Awareness, education and workforce
Ecosystem & partners
Public-private and market growth
International ties
Cooperation, norms and diplomacy
What you'll take away
Learning outcomes
The exercise is designed for policymakers, regulators and technical leaders. Beyond the game, participants leave with sharper instincts for the decisions that shape national cyber resilience.
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Strategic prioritisation
Practise sequencing investments under real budget and workforce constraints — and living with the consequences.
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Resilience thinking
See first-hand how preparation before a crisis changes its impact — the core logic of incident readiness.
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Cooperation & diplomacy
Experience why cross-border trust, information sharing and mutual aid make every nation safer.
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A shared vocabulary
Leave aligned on the domains and trade-offs of national cybersecurity capacity building.
International Telecommunication Union · Cyber Resilience Tabletop Exercise
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Session terminated
The facilitator has ended this exercise. Your table is now closed.
Please await further instructions from the exercise team.
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Your table will appear as soon as the lead facilitator starts Round 1.
Your table will appear as soon as the lead facilitator starts Round 1.
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Budget
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Your team
People don't refill each round — assign them wisely
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Tap a team to sit at their table — budgets stay secret in the real game
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Build your team's capabilities
Cards with a colored ring are ready to build now. Building one opens the next steps in that track from the following round.
Ready to build
Built
Not yet open
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Master Dashboard
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Break
Debrief
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This exercise
Every play is recorded with its location so groups can be compared later.
City
Country
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Enter both the host city and country before starting a new exercise.
Specialist transfer
Move a professional between teams. Sell at the market fee, or donate as a goodwill inject from the donor team.
Donor team (gives 1 person)
Recipient team (gains 1 person)
Negotiated fee — thousands of $ (default 100)
× $1,000 — set whatever the two captains agreed at the table
Team trade offers
Captains negotiate at the table, then send offers here. Instant sell/donate above is for facilitator injects only. Accepted trades cannot be undone.
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Proposer team
People
Budget ($ thousands)
Price ($ thousands)
Pending offers
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Inject calendar
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No scenario selected for this session
The exercise can't start until a scenario is chosen. Open the Scenario Library tab, pick Use this scenario, then return to Dashboard to start.
Waiting for the admin to select a scenario and start the exercise. This screen will be ready once they do.
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Team brief
General profile
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Cyber threat landscape
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Cybersecurity maturity
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Starting position (pre-played)
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Your objectives
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Your capabilities
Everything your team has built so far, by track.
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Other Actors
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Exercise profiles
Scenario context and team briefings from the active scenario — for facilitators and admin.
Team profiles
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Other Actors
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Available amount
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Resources
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People carry over between rounds
Capabilities ({{ capTotal }} cards)
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Where you stand, by track
A count of your capabilities in each of the six tracks.
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Your cards — have, can play & planned
Tap a card name for details. Add any ready card straight to this turn's plan.
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Status board — all teams
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Built = capabilities in place · Ready = prerequisites met, can be built now · In plan = staged for this round · Locked = prerequisites not yet built. Out of 47 cards per team. Click Open to sit at any team's table.
Administration & statistics
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No scenario selected for this session
Open the Scenario Library tab, pick Use this scenario, then return here to start the exercise.
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This scenario will be used when you start the exercise.
Exercise profiles
Scenario framing and per-team briefing material for facilitators.
User accounts
Accounts start without passwords. Only admin (password: ttx-admin) can sign in and generate them — then share each one manually. Use the toggles below to grant each facilitator any combination of the seven admin capabilities.
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Past plays
Compare how different groups performed on the same scenario. Bars show capability cards built per team (out of 47).
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No plays recorded yet. When you finish an exercise (or start a new one from here), it will appear for comparison.
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Start cards
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Scenario basics
Rounds & timing
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No fixed cap — set as many rounds as the scenario needs (1–40).
Schedule — breaks & debriefs
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Teams
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Starting deck · pre-game
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Cards each team already holds when Round 1 begins. Missing prerequisites are flagged in Checks.
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Card prerequisites — this scenario
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Prerequisites
No prerequisites — buildable from the start in this scenario.
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Required by
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Scheduled injects
Pick an inject from the library and assign which round and team it applies to.
No scheduled injects yet.
Flexible injects
No flexible injects configured.
Checks
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Injects Library
Injects Library
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Prepared if team has any of these cards
Leave empty to use scenario capability cards instead.
None selected — uses scenario capability cards.
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No injects match your search.
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Game-wide · affects all scenarios
Card dependencies
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Card pool
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Required by
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Deck · shared across scenarios
Card library
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Card details
Code
Group
Name
Tier
Cost (− spend / + gain)
Effort 👤
Description / effect
Assignment (optional)
Card art
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Prerequisites — cards required before this one
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Impacts — other cards that should require this one
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For captains:
For facilitators:
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Team's task if built
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How to read this card
NameThe capability the card builds.
IDUnique card identifier.
Effort 👤Workforce commitment or gain.
CostNegative = you spend. Positive = you gain.
DescriptionWhat the capability does in play and in debrief.
Money
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You need first
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Before you start
Please enter the host City and Country for this exercise before starting. These identify the saved play in Administration & statistics.
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