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IBM X-Force Cyber Range
The elite training your business leaders need to improve your readiness to effectively respond to a breach
When it comes to cyber threats, you can’t always predict when one will occur, but you can prepare. Responding to a cyber incident 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, helping ensure you can respond and recover from enterprise-level cyber security 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.
Data breach costs have hit a new high. Get insights on how to reduce these costs from the experiences of 604 organizations and 3,556 cybersecurity and business leaders.
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Capabilities
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.
Bring the IBM X-Force Cyber Range immersive and gamified experience to your preferred location. Our X-Force Cyber Range team will 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.
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.
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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.
Case studies
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Meet our experts
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.
Wielding a hacker mindset along with over 20 years of professional cybersecurity experience as both an attacker and defender, Jennifer provides a balanced connection between tactical operations and strategic imperatives.
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 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 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.
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.
Resources
Understand more about the capabilities X-Force can offer to protect your organization against cyber attack.
Learn more about the cyber range offerings and how your organization can train for a full-business incident response.
After a cyber breach, every second can count. Prepare your team to respond on your organization’s worst day.
A whole-of-business response to crisis-level cyberattacks that threaten your entire organization.
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