Hack The Box launches new AI-powered tabletops to redefine traditional TTXs

Today, Cyber Performance Center, Hack The Box, launches Crisis Control, an innovative AI-powered engagement that transforms TTXs into dynamic, real-time breach and crisis simulations for global teams. With the new service, Hack The Box aims to improve preparedness and promote greater interdepartmental collaboration and communication when responding to cyber incidents. 

2024 has continued the acceleration in the volume and complexity of cybersecurity incidents. This necessitates stronger crisis simulation for organizations, and a joined-up approach to crisis planning across all levels. Conversely, tabletop exercises, which have long underpinned crisis preparedness activity, have become limited in their ability to meet modern demands, owing to a lack of realism and intensity, the potential for bias from facilitators, and the time and resources involved in planning an exercise. 

Crisis Control represents the next iteration of in-person tabletop exercises, coupling AI with Hack The Box’s expert knowledge, to deliver highly realistic scenarios that challenge senior management and front-line professionals. 

Hack The Box has created and trained an AI model, that tracks, analyzes, and interprets historical public data pertaining to cyber incidents to generate an unlimited number of crisis scenarios. These can be highly tailored to existing technologies and specific cybersecurity concerns, that organizations may have missed in the past, find of interest, or that are trending among their business segments. They can also be tailored to the technical understanding of the employee, to ensure the gamified approach is effective. 

Haris Pylarinos, CEO and Founder at Hack The Box, said: “As the global threat landscape continues to evolve, preparedness, and consistency in response to a cybersecurity incident, is essential for every employee – from intern to the CEO. Tabletop exercises have the potential to deliver a hands-on approach to building these critical cybersecurity skills, but the time taken to plan and execute an exercise often renders the learnings obsolete upon delivery. It’s not just about preparing internal teams on how to resolve a breach quickly but thinking about how companies interact with and involve, external bodies from media to legislators. Crisis Control changes this.”

Beyond unlimited scenario creation, Hack The Box’s pre-trained AI model will also facilitate unlimited and real-time injects during the delivery of an exercise, to improve the customization of each simulation. On completion of the exercise, attendees will receive a post-exercise analysis, with curated strategies, performance evaluations, and best practices from Hack The Box’s subject matter experts. External experts are used to ensure impartiality and to help business check their blind spots. 

Haris Pylarinos continued: “By facilitating crisis simulation, grounded in current and evolving real-world threats and not bound by traditional limitations, Hack The Box is empowering organizations to develop the strategies they need to manage the evolving threat landscape. Crisis Control complements an already comprehensive suite of cybersecurity solutions to deliver a detailed workforce development plan, and ultimately, foster a culture of security awareness that is crucial for long-term resilience."

For more information on Crisis Control click here.