Yesterday, StrongKeep was given the immense responsibility of facilitating the national cyber crisis exercise for small businesses as part of Ministry of Defence of Singapore's Exercise SG Ready for Total Defence Day, together with Singapore Business Federation.
The 99% That Get Overlooked
Small companies are often neglected in conversations on national resilience — but the reality is that 99% of our companies are small, and they form the bedrock of our economy.
A total of 91 companies took part, split across 15 groups, each discussing how they would make decisions under gruelling conditions of a power disruption and a cyber incident.
"What stood out wasn't technical weakness. It was honesty."
— Gaurav Keerthi, CEO of StrongKeepOverwhelmed, Not Careless
Most small companies openly shared that they felt unprepared for a crisis of this nature. Many had very little cyber protection or resilience planning in place.
That moment stuck with us. Not because it was careless, but because it was real.
Small businesses aren't ignoring cybersecurity. They're overwhelmed by it. They're balancing operations, cash flow, staff, and customers, while being handed tools and frameworks that assume a security team they don't have. They're not looking for best-in-class solutions. They're looking for a practical way to start doing something.
Even something as simple (and free) as having a table-top discussion on preparedness was foreign to many of them. Consultants typically take weeks to prepare an exercise and can only support one company at a time. For most SMBs, that pushes crisis preparation out of reach.
How StrongKeep Did It Differently
Using StrongKeep's platform, we ran this very differently:
- 20 groups designed and ran tailored cyber crisis exercises in parallel
- Scenarios were AI-generated and facilitated within the platform
- Decisions, discussions, and gaps were captured as the exercise unfolded
- A report, with feedback and advice, was automatically generated for every group
No theatrics. No over-engineered playbooks. Just the fundamentals, structured properly.
Because small companies don't need to be impressed by fancy slides or pricey consultants — they need the basics sorted.
"National resilience isn't built only through large agencies and critical infrastructure. It's built when everyday businesses know how to respond calmly when things stop working."
— Gaurav Keerthi, CEO of StrongKeepStrongKeep was proud to make cyber crisis preparation achievable and accessible — not intimidating — for the 99% of SMBs without dedicated cyber teams.
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