Tabletop exercises your whole team can run — without a consultant.
Multi-user, AI-facilitated tabletop exercises built from your actual infrastructure. Run any time — no booking lead time, no external facilitator, and no cleared calendars. Debrief results feed directly into your plans.
Exercises are expensive to run, hard to coordinate, and most organisations do them once a year — or never.
External tabletop facilitation costs £1,500–£5,000 per session. Booking it requires finding a consultant, agreeing a date three months out, and persuading half your team to clear a morning. The result: most organisations run one exercise per year — which is nowhere near enough to build genuine muscle memory.
BastionIQ Exercise makes exercises so easy to run that there's no reason not to do them quarterly, monthly, or after every significant infrastructure change.
From scenario selection to debrief report
Choose a scenario
Select from six scenario types — ransomware, data breach, DDoS, insider threat, supply chain compromise, or cloud outage. Scenarios are built from your actual infrastructure register.
Invite your team
Participants join the exercise in real time. A facilitator controls the pace. Everyone contributes responses via rich-text cards — no need to be in the same room.
Run the exercise
The AI participates as an evaluator — flagging coverage gaps and contributing prompts when the team gets stuck. Choose fully AI-facilitated mode or let a human lead.
Review the debrief
A structured debrief report with AI synthesis is generated automatically. Lessons identified are fed directly back into your plans for continuous improvement.
What's included in Bastion Exercise
Six realistic scenario types
Ransomware, data breach, DDoS, insider threat, supply chain compromise, and cloud outage — each customised from your infrastructure register so they reflect your actual environment.
Multi-user, real-time participation
Your whole team joins simultaneously. No need to clear a half-day or hire a meeting room. Participants contribute responses in real time from wherever they are.
AI facilitation and evaluation
The AI participates as an evaluator — flagging gaps in coverage, surfacing dependencies you may have missed, and contributing prompts to keep the exercise progressing.
User-led mode
Prefer to run the exercise yourself? User-led mode gives a human facilitator full control of the pace while BastionIQ handles the structure, scenario delivery, and debrief.
Structured debrief reports
Every exercise produces a structured debrief — what went well, what was missed, and prioritised recommendations. Lessons are automatically surfaced for action.
Plan integration
Debrief outcomes feed directly into Bastion Plan. When an exercise surfaces a gap in your DR or IR plan, it's linked — making your plans genuinely better over time.
More exercises per year — at no additional cost per session
External facilitation costs £1,500–£5,000 per session. BastionIQ Exercise is £42/month as an add-on — meaning unlimited exercises for the cost of a fraction of one consultant session. Move from annual to quarterly, or quarterly to monthly, without adding budget.
Run your first exercise today.
Free 30-day trial — all modules, no credit card. Exercise is included in the trial.