Weekly Incident Drills
The Discernible Experience
Most security professionals build technical instincts through years of hands-on work. Communication instincts don't develop the same way — unless you practice them intentionally.
The Discernible Experience gives you weekly opportunities to practice the communication moments that separate technically strong practitioners from organizationally influential ones. Every Wednesday in our Slack community, small cohorts work through evolving real-world scenarios with genuine stakeholder complexity such as time pressure, incomplete information, competing priorities, and audiences who care about different things.
This is not a tabletop exercise. Tabletops test your organization's processes. The Discernible Experience builds your individual communication capability. Once you learn to recognize the patterns, every stakeholder email, every executive update, and every cross-functional meeting becomes an opportunity to demonstrate your craft.
Our scenarios rotate across more than a dozen incident types including ransomware, insider threats, supply chain compromises, privacy violations, and more — drawn from our 20 years of frontline security communication work.
Who It's For
Security or privacy professionals with at least one to two years of incident response experience who are great at the technical work and ready to close the gap on the organizational side. If you've ever struggled to get budget approved, explain program value to leadership, or turn technical wins into credibility, then this was built for you.
Plans
- Debrief — $15/month | Can't make our live sessions on Wednesdays? Get our weekly scenarios delivered directly to your inbox.
- Standard — $50/month | Weekly scenarios via Slack plus access to the scenario library archive.
- Pro — $100/month | Everything in Standard, plus custom scenario requests, live post-session discussions with Discernible CEO Melanie Ensign, and three guest passes per year.
Individual subscriptions means you can join with or without the rest of your 9-5 team.