Quick start: run your first exercise
Create an account, pick a scenario, invite your team and run a first tabletop exercise.
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A tabletop exercise on Breakpoint takes six steps, from sign-up to review. Every plan starts with a free 14-day trial.
1. Create your account and organization
- Open the sign-up page and enter your details.
- Verify your email address from the message we send.
- Name your organization. Everything you create belongs to it.
2. Choose a scenario
Start from the scenario library (ransomware, data breach, phishing and more) or build your own on a plan that includes custom scenarios.
3. Create the exercise
Set your objectives first: decide which capabilities you are testing, such as detection, containment or communication. The scenario then becomes an exercise with its own participants, schedule and results.
4. Invite participants and schedule it
Add each person to the exercise with a role (facilitator, participant or observer), then schedule the session. See Roles and permissions for what each role can do.
5. Run it
The facilitator starts the exercise and delivers events while participants make decisions together. The exercise moves through draft, scheduled, in progress and completed, and can be paused.
6. Review the results
When the exercise ends, review what went well, where the gaps were and what to fix first.