Full Spectrum Cyber Readiness
AI-driven cyber threat scenarios and exercises for organizations that refuse to be unprepared.
Discover Our SolutionsOur Mission
Anticipate. Prepare. Respond.
Xiroko specializes in creating and implementing AI-driven cyber threat scenarios and exercises.
Our goal is to help public and private organizations effectively anticipate, prepare for, and respond to cyber attacks.
Our Origin
Xiroko Origin
Inspired by a live cyber response exercise similar to Locked Shields and tailored for commercial organizations.
The program trains both technical and executive staff to effectively respond to catastrophic cyber attacks, enhancing collaboration and strengthening overall cyber resilience.
The Challenge
The Evolving Threat Landscape
The most resource-intensive part of delivering cyber readiness is creating and maintaining realistic, complex cyber-scenarios.
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
AI-powered attacks evolve faster than human defenders can respond, fundamentally changing the threat calculus.
IoT & Connected Systems
Previously disconnected operational technology is now networked, creating attack surfaces that never existed before.
Blockchain & Cryptocurrencies
Decentralized finance enables untraceable ransomware payments and novel attack funding mechanisms.
Geopolitical Grey Zone
Sub-Article 5 hostilities bring commercial actors into the battlefield, targeting supply chains that serve national security.
Our Solutions
The Solution
An exercise platform that generates and operates scenarios using Artificial Intelligence.
Layer 8™
Live Exercise
High degree of realism and executive engagement. Modeled on Locked Shields—the world’s largest and most advanced cyber defense exercise—brought to the private sector.
Sudden Dusk™
Cyber Warfare Game
Scaled delivery of the Layer 8 experience at significant cost reduction. A multi-player game that immerses players in a virtual world of cyber warfare.
Analyst-xi™
Virtual Intelligence Analyst
A virtual cyber threat intelligence analyst that generates useful fiction, allowing technologists, executives, and policy makers to meet emerging threats head on.
Xiroko Simulation Platform
The Heart of Xiroko
The Xiroko Simulation Platform is the engine that powers all of our products. It generates and operates complex, AI-driven cyber-scenarios at scale.
Purpose-built to simulate realistic multi-vector cyber attacks, the platform delivers scenarios that test real-time decision-making, coordination, and technical resilience under pressure.
Xiroko Simulation Platform
Layer 8™
The flagship Xiroko live exercise.
Modeled on Locked Shields—the world’s largest and most advanced cyber defense exercise—Layer 8™ brings the same high realism and operational intensity to the private sector.
Created by veteran participants of Locked Shields, this exercise tests real-time decision-making, coordination, and technical resilience under pressure.
The name “Layer 8” refers to the human element—often the weakest link in cybersecurity. By focusing on this critical layer, the exercise goes beyond technology to challenge teams on coordination, decision-making, and resilience.
Xiroko Simulation Platform
Sudden Dusk™
Extends Layer 8™ to a game-delivered experience.
Sudden Dusk™ is a multi-player game that immerses players in a virtual world of cyber warfare. Using the Xiroko Simulation Platform, players must respond to realistic scenarios and dilemmas.
By delivering the experience via a commercial gaming platform, Xiroko can reach a broader audience at significantly reduced cost.
Xiroko Simulation Platform
Analyst-xi™
A virtual cyber intelligence analyst.
Uses the Xiroko Simulation Engine to develop What-if scenarios. Most Cyber Threat Intelligence is based on current threats and generic predictions. Analyst-xi™ generates useful fiction allowing technologists, executives, and policy makers to meet emerging threats head on.
Analyst-xi™ augments human analysts to provide executives with clarity across numerous iterations, accounting for dilemmas introduced by adversaries.
See It In Action
The Xiroko Scenario
A demonstration of how Xiroko develops and runs complex cyber-centric geopolitical scenarios.
Follow the story of Seguran — a fictional company responsible for transporting uranium — as they face a catastrophic cyber attack from international threat actors.
Leadership
Our Team
Veterans of cyber defense exercises and national security operations.
John La Delfa
Chief Executive Officer
Pete Kofod
Chief Technology Officer
Bill Keber
VP Exercise
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