IRGame Wall of Love

Video transcript: Hey, my name is Jason Whitehurst. I'm the owner of futuresafe, which is an MSSP for msps. As soon as I heard about IR Game from one of our clients, actually, I felt like it was absolutely a requirement for us to run the game and see what it's like with Bob. I wanted to see whether the many, many ransomware cases and becs that we have under our belt for our clients, clients and folks that were referred to us translate it to us being able to make good decisions internally if something were to happen to us. So I had the whole team involved, we went through the exercise and we did quite well, but we also had some solid learning opportunities about particularly around making decisive decisions with whatever information we have and not letting time get better of us as we needed to proceed, and also not spending too much time on things that aren't altogether that important in relation to what we needed to take care of right away. The follow up from that and the review is solid and we like it so much that we're going to recommend this product and potentially offer it to all of our MSP clients so that they can help their clients run the game before they have to do it in real life. Hopefully they don't have to, but if they do.

Video transcript: So one of my thoughts about IR Game is I think it's phenomenal. It's great because it simulates an incident without having to be in an actual incident, which I find is great because no one wants to go through that. Now. The cool thing about this is that you're able to work with other individuals. Whether you're in information security or you could be like a cyber insurance, the CEO. It doesn't really matter what part of the department you are within a company is that we get to work together and get to see different insights from one another. So you don't have to necessarily be an IT individual to be able to play this. You could be CEO, vice president, anything like that, board member and you could take place to see what it's like to be part of an incident, which I think is great. Also on top of that, when you work with other IT individuals and most of them I didn't even know when I first joined in and now it's my third time doing it. And I think it's great because you get different perspectives. Also you go through different procedures that you have and you can also start thinking about maybe you're missing something in your procedure or maybe you could refine the way it's written in the procedure and go off that to make some adjustments to make it easier. So if you do run into an incident, hopefully not that way, you're able to run through it smoother and quicker versus different way you had it, which could cause some confusion. So by doing this, it opens so many different perspectives that you may not even realize. So I think it's a great collaborative way, but also to network with other like minded individuals, you and maybe not even similar individuals, maybe people in different departments. So I think it's great, I recommend it and I even tell my friends about it as well. So go ahead and take a look at it and join one of these events. If you're thinking about it, I just say go for it.

Video transcript: What I like most about the IR games is that they run different scenarios, and I learn something new every single time. So it's been great fun, and I suggest that you sign up and try it yourself.

Video transcript: Hi, it's Anne from Ikaru, and I highly recommend that you check out IR game. That's incident response game. It's a great tabletop exercise. You can play over Zoom. What I love about the game is that it's played against a timer, so you have the pressure of an incident. Also, everybody plays a different role. So different roles have different pieces of information they can work with, and they have different capabilities that they're able to accomplish within the game. You can mix up so that somebody who's normally on a technical team is on a different team, so they can see what that works out as, and it really generates a lot of discussion, and I love that people from any department in the company, this is not a highly technical game. Everybody in the company can participate, and I think that's really what's necessary for an effective tabletop exercise.

Video transcript: Playing this game was nothing short of fantastic. The IR game crew invited our team of cyber insurance nerds to play, and it was an absolute blast. And that should tell you something, because we're a bunch of cyber insurance nerds. It's a very accessible game. There's plenty of quick thinking, on your feet, calculations, strategy involved. But between those moments of high intensity is an opportunity to discuss and learn about the finer points of incident response. This is a fantastic learning sim that every MSP, every single one, should run with their team at least one time.

Video transcript: Hey, I wanted to give a huge shout out to the IR games team. They brought the fifth wall insurance sales team onboard onto the show and it was such a learning experience going from insurance agent into the mindset of our customers, the MSP, in the event of when it hits the fan. And it was enlightening and thank goodness we got some good roles. But it was enlightening to watch some of our newer team members dive into the world of claims, dive into the world of an incident. And I cannot recommend this game enough. It is an educational, yet fast paced, thrilling adventure. I highly recommend it. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. You can find me on LinkedIn. Thank you.

Video transcript: Hey everyone, if you're looking to use IR game or get into IR game, or if you just wanted to explore it and sign up for a game, I highly, highly recommend it. If you're already kind of familiar with it and you're considering using as an educational tool for your teams, your clients, it is a phenomenal tool. My personal experience, I mean I ran two different MSP's for over 14 years and unfortunately we did have a day similar to the scenario that we ran in our IR game. And it was extremely realistic. It helps you think through in the moment the pressures, right? The implications of your actions, whether you're a seasoned security professional or it professional, or whether you were the head of sales and you just want to understand the challenges that it organizations and MSP's face. It's a phenomenal experience, I have to say a little bit of PTSD because you're having to relive those scenarios and you're having to make really tough decisions. So if you want a realistic way to walk through again what a lot of MSP's and iT companies see when an incident happens, to understand the full spectrum of the impacts of the actions you have to take, I highly, highly recommend IR game sign up today. You're not going to regret it no matter what role you play in cybersecurity or in business. Do it now. Have fun. Learn a lot.

Video transcript: Brian Weiss here from itech solutions out of San Luis Obis Obispo, California. We're an MSP of 13 people, and this was one of the most coolest games I've played in a long time. Kept me on my toes. You walk into this thing thinking you know what you're gonna do, and you realize quickly, wow, you've got a lot of uncontrolled variables that you thought you might have had under control that aren't really. So I think this is one of those great games that can really give you some extra humility around maybe what you need to rethink right on. When it comes to incident response for us, we always feel like we've got things under control. Right. That's how we sleep at night. But in reality, we do need to inspect what to expect often. And I feel like that does include taking part in exercises like this just to kind of give you a little wake up call. Right. I will say that internally, we want to do more intensive tabletop type exercises with our own internal team, so we build that confidence working with our team internally. But this is a great way to kind of get outside your shell, put you in your place a little bit. We lost all our clients. I heard there might be a programming issue, but I wouldn't doubt if we lost all our clients because it was kind of haphazard with how everything was going. But I want to thank everyone over at the IR games team for making this happen, because it's things like this that are really helping rise the tides in our industry. And I appreciate you guys very much. Thank you.