In a world where financial institutions have been dragged kicking and screaming into the digital age, cyber-resilience has gone from ‘nice to have’ to ‘fill out these 30 forms or else’. Yes, that’s right, what used to be a leisurely afternoon spent playing board games at the office is now a cutthroat cyberwarfare simulation. Welcome to the future!

Once upon a time, tabletop exercises were the realm of Dungeons & Dragons enthusiasts or those pesky management consultants looking to jazz up their dreary PowerPoints. But now, thanks to an intricate maze of regulations more complex than assembling IKEA furniture without instructions, every financial service institution is mandated to play pretend crisis manager. Congratulations, you’ve traded in your calculator for an elite hacker’s keyboard!

Of course, this is all purely for regulatory compliance, which, as everyone knows, is just a fancy way of saying, ‘We’ve got to do this or the government will send us on a guilt trip to shame us into submission.’ So, gear up, financial warriors, as the line between Monopoly and cybersecurity blurs; just don’t land on the ‘Go Directly to Jail’ square in real life, or your shareholders might not be too happy.