Strategic support involves the use of scenarios to help people better understand the decisions they have to make. This method is particularly useful for developing security policy, security training and awareness, building team cohesion, analysis of major long-term security decsions, and selections of technologies and techniques in complex settings involving many stakeholders.

Scenario development helps to focus the organization on consequences and key decisions. Policy development in practice situations brings out practical issues that are often missed in purely analytical methods. Training with scenarios creates an atmosphere far more conducive to learning than lectures, video tapes, and other widely used methods - and it also provides documented, measurable results. Scenario-based exercises engage the participants in an enjoyable and fruitful experience that stimulates thinking about security issues.

Strategic scenarios provide an active learning experience with proven effectiveness.

Working together, we develop a set of scenarios that will best suit your needs. On-site visits facilitate initial use of scenarios in exercises within your organization. Results are reported and scenarios are updated and tuned to your needs. For corporate-wide rollout, we train your people to facilitate exercises, and provide everything you need to run the scenarios and assess the results.

We partner with you to provide what you need.

The example games provided above give you an idea of how interactive strategic scenario games can work for you. Try one of the non-restricted games on for size and get a feel for how your employees will use their on-line experience to help them do a better job.

While Internet-based gaming doesn't provide the same interactive advantages of sitting in a room with other people discussing the issues, it provides a very low cost alternative to other training methods, gives instant feedback to employees, and gives detailed feedback to management on how each employee performed.

Low Cost:

The cost of interactive Internet gaming can be as little as $2500 for setup and $2 per trainee. You can even have us set up and operate an interwctive gaming system on your Intranet site and teach your people how to set up their own games.

All of the off-the-shelf games you see to the left are available as Internet games, as well as semi-customized and fully customized strategic scenario games.

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Customized games are built to the need. This normally begins with an on-site visit to discuss your environment and see what you do and how your operations work. Based on this visit we develop a customized sample base scenario that described the fundamental aspects of the situation you want to evaluate. We then develop event sequences that stress the issues of particular interest, and work with you to make a final version for an off-site exercise.

Once the scenarios are good to go, we hold exercises, generate initial results in real-time, produce a report of the overall findings along with analysis, and provide all the tools you require to rerun the exercise at a later time or under different conditions. The typical cost is about $40,000 to $60,000 depending on the complexity of the situation and the size of the excersize.

These types of scenarios are commonly used by large organizations where complex decisions involving many stakeholders must be made. The games result in a combination of improved interaction between participants, improved understanding of the wide range of differing perspectives within the organization, better management understanding of technical issues, and better technical understanding of management concerns and priorities.

Some organzations combine short courses with scenario-based training to enhance the understanding and application of the information presented in the course. This multi-mode learning has been shown to make for far more effective training and education and is increasingly being used in organizations where complex decisions involving complicated technologies have to be made in very short time frames.