Blast Radius: Ransomware
The Incident Response Workshop Kit
The ransomware hit at 2am. Half the team is asleep. The backup status is unknown. And the attackers are already moving laterally through your network.
Blast Radius: Ransomware puts your team inside an active incident, making triage decisions, negotiating with stakeholders, managing the clock, and trying to contain the damage before it becomes a headline. This isn't a tabletop exercise. It's the real conversation, compressed into 45 minutes.
How to play
One turn, start to finish.
- Incident
A ransomware event is triggered. Clock starts.
- Triage
Play Response cards in priority order.
- Negotiate
Decision cards force hard choices: pay / restore / disclose.
- Recover
Score based on speed, cost, and reputational damage.
Respond to a live ransomware incident in real time
Coordinate across IT, legal, comms, and leadership
Race the clock before the blast radius expands
- Players
- 4–20 players
- Time
- 45–60 min
- Age
- Ages 14+
- Use case
- Incident response workshops
How facilitators use it
Open a session
Start the first round without a briefing. Hand out cards, explain the objective in 60 seconds, and let people learn the mechanics by playing. The moment it clicks in round two is worth more than ten minutes of explanation.
Drive the debrief
Ask one open question and let the room run with it. Players reference their own moves, so the discussion is already in front of you. Shared language and shared experience do the rest.
Pair with a guide
Run it standalone, or pair it with the structured facilitation guide included in the box. The guide adds pre session framing, timed facilitation notes, and a full debrief script.
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