Compile a list of overused tech sector words and seamless is near the top. With technology measured by its ability to make tasks effortless - a UI that ‘removes the seams’ for the user is critical.
Want to listen to a song? Ask Alexa. Summarize string theory? Type a prompt. Buy a drink? Wave your phone. And so on.
This is what our new scheduler sets out to do for team exercising.
Typically, setting up a range requires time and work a defensive team admin doesn't have. The result? Exercising doesn't happen. This means soft skills remain dormant, technical skills untested and processes a liability. The other option - falling back onto unrealistic attack simulations - can be just as much of a time sink.
This got us thinking. How do we make creating and scheduling a team exercise in a high-context range more like provisioning a cloud application?
Our updated scheduler is the result.
A new UI makes short work of selecting scenarios, choosing exercise types, customizing the range and scheduling time with your team members:
1. Select an attack: A redesigned picker filters the exercise catalogue by threat type, difficulty and attacker TTP - making it easy to select a more relevant attack narrative.
2. Schedule range time: Pick dates, times and teams before inviting participants. Exercises with a Rangemaster need 5 days notice - those without - just 24 hours. Or if you haven’t aligned internally yet, just leave a placeholder.
3. Select from 3 exercise types: Exercise your triage by provisioning an EDR, leave it out to test threat hunting, or select Red vs Blue and invite the offensive team.
4. Customize tools: Configure your range’s defensive toolset by picking from a list of leading SIEM, firewall and EDR vendors.
5. Act on clear skills gap data: Access readiness scores, MITRE D3FEND maps and exercise performance data so you can assign targeted solo skills labs.
To try a free team exercise for yourself, go here.