IBM X-Force Cyber Range

The elite training that your business leaders need to improve your readiness to effectively respond to a breach

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Immersive simulated cybersecurity training scenarios  

When it comes to cyberthreats, you can’t always predict when one occurs, but you can prepare. Responding to a cyberincident is a business-wide responsibility. Your entire organization should be prepared to react with speed, agility, common purpose and the right security services.

The IBM X-Force® Cyber Range solution creates immersive simulations to guide your team through realistic breach scenarios. This helps ensure that you can respond and recover from enterprise-level cybersecurity incidents, manage vulnerabilities and build a stronger security culture in your organization.

Since our launch in 2016, over 17,000 business leaders have gone through our immersive training, finding ideas of growth in their response plan within a safe environment, while using industry best practices and real-life data breaches.

Take a tour of the Cyber Range experience

The IBM X-Force Cyber Range (formerly known as IBM Security Command Centers) immerse organizations into real-world cybersimulations that help them assess their security posture and maturity for a full-business response. These gamified simulations address technical, leadership and communication skills for security teams, executives and the board, helping organizations to reduce cyber risk. Watch it in action in this short video.

Benefits
Incident response readiness could save USD 1.5 million

Organizations with an incident response (IR) team who regularly tested their IR plan experienced an average cost of data breach that was USD 1.5 million lower compared to organizations without an IR team or IR plan testing.

Experience a simulated cyberincident

Give your cross-functional fusion team the chance to feel the intensity and pressure of a real-life data breach through an immersive, gamified experience in a simulated incident.

Sharpen collaboration across your organization

When you participate in an X-Force Cyber Range experience, you have the rare opportunity to collaborate with not only your security team but the executive leaders across multiple lines of business including but not limited to, legal, PR, HR, operations and finance.  

Capabilities At IBM Cyber Range facilities

At IBM Cyber Range facilities IBM Consulting maintains X-Force Cyber Range facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Washington DC, Ottawa, Canada (in partnership with the University of Ottawa) and Bangalore, India. Each facility provides an immersive, stimulating setting for organizations to experience true-to-life cyber response scenarios, in a full-scale security operations center (SOC) based on a fusion team model.

Customer onsite

Bring the IBM X-Force Cyber Range immersive and gamified experience to your preferred location. Our X-Force Cyber Range team can customize either a half or full-day agenda specifically for you and then immerse your technical and leadership teams in an engaging session to hone your cybersecurity response.

 

Virtual

The IBM X-Force Cyber Range virtual experiences provide immersive simulations to strengthen your organization’s cyber response and improve resilience and fix vulnerabilities—anywhere in the world. Collaborate with individuals from across your organization, regardless of location. Our 2-to-4-hour experiences can be customized based on your industry, location and structure.

Dig into the New Threats of 2025 with X-Force
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Armed with the insights of our X-Force 2025 Threat Intelligence Index report, our team can help you secure your business against cyber threats. We are offering briefings with our expert team of intelligence analysts to give you customized insights about your organization.

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Case studies
Finastra tests their incident response plan by simulating a cybersecurity breach 

Go behind the scenes of a simulated cybersecurity breach and hear about one financial technology company’s experiences testing their incident response preparedness in the IBM X-Force Cyber Range.

Watch the video (2:52)

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Meet our experts Stephanie Carruthers
Having a dual role on the X-Force team, Snow focuses on simulated incidents for executives, board of directors, and technical teams through Cyber Range exercises and conducting social engineering engagements for clients.
Richard Moore
With over 7 years of experience in cybersecurity, Richard is a lead technical advisor and cyber wargame architect. He designs, builds and facilitates technically focused forensic experiences for IBM clients. Richard has a wide breadth of technical knowledge across industries and security tools.
Marco Simioni, PhD
Marco has over 20 years of experience in software development, penetration testing, vulnerability management and research. He is an IBM Master Inventor and holds a PhD in Digital Investigations, Marco designs, develops and delivers cyber crisis exercises.
Claire Nuñez
Claire is the content lead and immersive designer for the X-Force Cyber Range with 7 years of content and design experience. She currently directs creative assets and develops scenarios for the X-Force Cyber Range. Using her privacy and political psychology experience, she also explores security topics on Security Intelligence.
Brenden Glynn
Leveraging two decades of leadership and cybersecurity expertise across both military and corporate sectors, Brenden specializes in enhancing organizations' crisis management capabilities. By driving strategic preparedness, building team resilience and fostering collaboration, our team ensures our clients are ready to respond effectively when crises inevitably arise.
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