Experience the decisions you’ll have to make when a ransomware attack becomes reality. A ransomware attack doesn’t just affect your IT systems. It disrupts operations, impacts customers, creates difficult financial decisions and puts your leadership team under enormous pressure.
Join Kascade and Arctic Wolf for a free, interactive workshop that puts you at the centre of a realistic ransomware scenario. Working through a fictional cyber-attack, you’ll step into the shoes of business leaders responsible for making critical decisions as events unfold.
This isn’t a presentation or technical demonstration. It’s a hands-on tabletop exercise designed to show what really happens during a ransomware incident, how different departments are affected, and why preparation before an attack is just as important as your response afterwards.
Whether you’re responsible for IT, operations, risk or the wider business, you’ll leave with practical insight into the challenges organisations face during a cyber crisis and the steps you can take to strengthen your resilience.
What you’ll experience
Throughout the workshop, you’ll work through a realistic ransomware attack as it unfolds, discussing the decisions that need to be made and the consequences each one brings.
Together, we’ll explore:
- The reality of a ransomware attack – how it impacts every part of a business, from operations and finances to customers and reputation.
- Leadership under pressure – the difficult decisions organisations face, including incident response, cyber insurance and whether paying a ransom is ever the right choice.
- Building cyber resilience – the practical steps that help organisations prepare, respond and recover more effectively when an attack happens.
What you’ll leave with
By the end of the session, you’ll leave with:
- A clearer understanding of what really happens during a ransomware attack and the decisions your organisation may need to make.
- Insight into where your incident response plans could be strengthened and why tabletop exercises are such an effective way to prepare.
- Practical actions you can take to improve your organisation’s cyber readiness and resilience.
Cyber attacks rarely come with warning…
The organisations that respond best are the ones that have already practised the decisions they’ll need to make. Join us for this engaging, interactive workshop and discover how prepared your organisation really is.
Frequently asked questions
It’s a structured, script-guided tabletop exercise where participants play out the roles a real organisation would need during a ransomware attack, finance, legal, leadership and more, to see the business impact unfold in real time.
No. This session is built around business impact, not technical detail. If you’d be in the room during a real incident, from finance to the boardroom, this is for you.
No. It’s an educational, interactive session focused on business impact and incident response planning, not a product walkthrough.
You’ll see how negotiation with attackers typically unfolds and where cyber insurance fits in, including the practical decisions and trade-offs organisations face when a claim is on the line.
That’s exactly the point of the exercise. It’s much cheaper to find the gaps in your plan during a table read than during a real attack.