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TRACK 2 // LEADERSHIP

0xSAC // EXECExecutive Decision Simulation

A facilitated crisis simulation for the people who own the outcome. While technical teams fight the intrusion, you will decide what to disclose, when, to whom — and how to keep essential services running for the public and your customers.

No technical background required. Written and delivered in the language of governance, legal obligation, and public trust.

0x0100 // Who should attend

Attendee profile

  • City Managers

    Accountable for resident-facing services and council communication.

  • Agency Directors

    Responsible for program delivery and statewide public trust.

  • CISOs

    Translating technical risk into executive decisions.

  • CIOs

    Balancing restoration speed against operational risk.

  • General Counsel

    Owning notification obligations and legal exposure.

0x0200 // Syllabus

Core pillars

PILLAR 01

Regulatory & Statutory Clocks

Once a breach is suspected, deadlines start running. Practice deciding when an event becomes a notifiable incident.

  • California Civil Code § 1798.82 — notifying affected residents "in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay"
  • SEC cybersecurity disclosure — determining materiality and the four-business-day Form 8-K clock
  • Coordinating with insurers, outside counsel, and law enforcement

PILLAR 02

Public Crisis Communications

The story moves faster than the forensics. Learn to say enough — accurately — without saying too much.

  • Drafting and approving a holding statement under time pressure
  • Mock press inquiry defense with a live "reporter"
  • Aligning messages for staff, elected officials, customers, and regulators

PILLAR 03

Service Continuity & Risk Containment

Every containment action has a cost to the public. Weigh it deliberately.

  • Deciding when to take systems offline versus keep services running
  • Activating continuity plans and manual workarounds
  • Ransom, recovery, and third-party vendor decisions

0x0300 // Tabletop integration

Not a scripted tabletop. A live one.

Traditional tabletops run on a fixed script. In 0xSAC, the scenarios you receive — called injects — are triggered by what is actually happening on the Track 1 range.

If a technical team contains the intruder quickly, your decisions get easier. If they lose a critical system, your service-outage briefing arrives minutes later. Your choices, in turn, are relayed back to the technical teams as leadership direction.

  1. 01 // Range event

    A technical team detects data leaving a records server.

  2. 02 // Facilitator relay

    The exercise control team converts the telemetry into a plain-language briefing.

  3. 03 // Executive inject

    "Records for residents may be affected. Does the notification clock start now? Who approves the statement?"

  4. 04 // Decision returned

    Your direction — isolate, restore, or hold — shapes what the technical teams do next.

What you take home

  • ✓ A tested decision record and notification timeline
  • ✓ A holding-statement template you have actually used
  • ✓ Gaps identified in your continuity and incident response plans
  • ✓ Joint review with the technical teams who lived the same incident