// Why we exist

The market optimizes for passing. We optimize for finding.

Most tabletop exercise vendors are in the business of making clients feel prepared. Scenarios are kept manageable. Answers are not challenged. Reports are written to document effort, not surface failures.

We think that's backwards. A tabletop exercise that your team "passes" has told you almost nothing. An exercise that surfaces three genuine coordination breakdowns, two detection gaps, and one escalation path that doesn't exist - that exercise has value.

The founding team brings combined expertise in endpoint detection and response, incident response, and security operations. We have been on the other side of real incidents. We know what breaks. We know what the questions sound like when the pressure is real. We replicate that environment - on purpose.

"An exercise that your team passes has told you almost nothing. An exercise that surfaces real failures - that has value." — Siege Table Security

// Combined expertise

What the team brings to the table

EDR

Endpoint Detection & Response

Deep familiarity with how EDR tooling generates telemetry, where it misses, and how adversaries evade it. We probe whether your detection coverage is real - not just deployed.

IR

Incident Response

Experience running and supporting real incident response engagements. We know where IR playbooks break down under actual pressure and where communication chains fail first.

SECOPS

Security Operations

Background in operating security programs - not just advising on them. We understand the constraints, the tool sprawl, the understaffing, and the alert fatigue that define real environments.

// Founding team

The people running the exercise

Ethan Epstein

Co-Founder - Security Operations

10 years in security operations, digital forensics, and incident response. Started in DFIR doing hands-on investigations for government and enterprise clients, then moved into building and running security operations programs from the ground up - zero to 24x7 coverage, full EDR/SIEM/SOAR stack, MSSP partnerships, in regulated environments with thousands of endpoints. Has hunted threats, built detection logic, and managed the full incident response lifecycle across healthcare, financial services, and government. Deeply technical. Doesn't manage from a distance.

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Ivan Rodriguez, CISSP

Co-Founder - Security Leadership

Nearly two decades in IT infrastructure and security operations, the last several years spent running security programs at scale in highly regulated healthcare environments. CISSP. Has led the build-out of security teams, implemented enterprise security programs, and operated at the intersection of complex infrastructure and adversarial risk. Bilingual. Brings both the technical depth and the organizational leadership experience to understand where programs break - and why.

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// How we operate

Operating principles

We will tell you when the exercise went badly.

That is the entire point of hiring us. If your team had a bad exercise, you have the information you need to improve. If we let you think it went well, we've wasted your time and your money. We won't do that.

We know your environment before we walk in the door.

There are no improvised scenarios here. The exercise is constructed from your actual environment data. We know your hosts, your controls, your crown jewels, your exposure surface. The scenario is built around what can realistically happen to you - not a fictional company.

We are not a compliance vendor.

We do not help you check a box. We help you understand whether your team can function under real incident conditions. If your current goal is a compliance checkbox, we are probably not the right fit. We can refer you to firms that specialize in that work.

We respect your data and tell you exactly what we do with it.

When an engagement ends, your environment data is deleted. We do not retain operational data between engagements. We do not use client data to train models or benchmark against other clients. We wrote a full transparency page so you don't have to ask.

// Work with us

Start with the free posture score.

No sales call. No commitment. Get a scored gap report from the self-service tool and see where you actually stand before deciding whether to go further.

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