Cyber Simulator allows participants to take on the role of the senior leadership in the IT function of the Department of Monetary Affairs. It is designed to follow the 7 stages of the cyber kill chain developed by Lockheed Martin and brings in research by the US Department of Homeland Security, various cyber specialist incident companies and real-life public examples.

At each stage various aspects of a building cyber issue are exposed, allowing the participants to vote on decisions that need to be made. The decisions are made under a time limit of a few minutes via slido and decide what actions are taken, and the repercussions as a result. Culminating in a full-blown ransomware attack the participants must make some tough decisions that ultimately could result in them losing their job, or the departments data.

The outcome, other than high blood pressure and a raised heart rate, is to put a real-life example of a cyber incident against a known kill chain approach.