What is Resilience Arena?

Resilience Arena is a crisis simulation, scoring and assurance platform from Resilience Guard. It places leadership and crisis teams inside a realistic, escalating scenario, scores every decision against recognised resilience and security standards, and turns the result into structured, audit-ready evidence, all within a single governed environment.

How is it different from crisis training or a learning system?

Training and learning systems record that people attended and completed content. Resilience Arena measures how leaders actually decide under pressure, scores those decisions against standards, and produces a defensible record of capability that improves over time. It exercises judgement rather than logging attendance.

How is it different from a governance, risk and compliance platform?

Governance and compliance platforms hold registers, controls and policies, but they do not put a crisis in front of the people who would have to manage one. Resilience Arena adds the exercising and the scored, evidenced outcome that those platforms lack, and it can sit alongside an existing governance toolchain rather than replacing it.

Is a Resilience Arena score a compliance certification?

No. Scores are indicative maturity and exposure estimates derived from exercise performance. They support an organisation's evidence base and regulatory readiness, but they are not certifications or legal advice, and the acceptance of any output as evidence remains at the discretion of the relevant authority or auditor.

Which standards and regulations does it support?

Exercises and scores are mapped to ISO 22301, ISO 27001, the NIS2 Directive, the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and a governance maturity benchmark, so that ordinary use supports readiness across the regimes that matter to regulated and critical organisations.

Where is our data held, and is it confidential?

Resilience Arena offers European data residency, with a Swiss-residency option, or a fully on-premise installation inside your own boundary. Access is role-based, every material action is recorded in an immutable audit log, and each client environment is strictly isolated from every other. Confidentiality is treated as a first principle, consistent with Resilience Guard's practice.

Can we use our own scenarios and keep ownership of our content?

Yes. The scenario and playbook library is client-owned and editable on demand, so exercises reflect your real risk landscape, sector and language of operation. Your content remains yours.

Who needs a licence, and is it suitable for the board?

Resilience Arena is licensed by named user for the senior cohort that matters in a crisis: the resilience and crisis team, the executive committee and board, and the cross-functional crisis roles. A simplified board mode lets executives take part and read clear results without training, while read-only auditor access is provided for assurance functions.

Can it run on our own infrastructure?

Yes. The platform is available as a hosted service operated by Resilience Guard, or as an on-premise installation on infrastructure you control, for organisations whose policy or regulator requires it.

How do we get started?

Most organisations begin with a confidential walkthrough tailored to their context, followed by a scoped pilot with a real group that establishes a baseline and produces board-ready evidence within a short timeframe. Resilience Guard's advisory team responds within 24 hours.

What is Resilience Guard's role in these projects?

A funded consortium partner with named responsibilities: leading risk and vulnerability workstreams, developing risk quantification and assessment engines, holding business continuity and quality assurance leadership, and driving exploitation so results outlive the grant. Each project page states the specific role and grant agreement.

Which programmes fund the portfolio?

The European Union's Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe research and innovation programmes, each project under its own grant agreement, with the agreement number published on every project page.

How does the research benefit consulting clients?

Directly: 7SHIELD's converged cyber physical protection informs the DAEDALUS airport framework, the WATSON and THETIDA assessment engines feed the measurement discipline of the 7A Framework, and the climate hazard modelling of BLOSSOM and HARMONIA underpins our climate risk advisory. Clients receive methods that have survived peer review and live demonstration.

Can we partner with Resilience Guard on a proposal?

Yes. We join consortia where our risk, continuity and resilience competencies carry named work: risk assessment tooling, vulnerability analysis, business continuity, quality and exploitation. Contact us with the call and the role in mind.

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The portfolio

Why a consultancy does research

Resilience Guard participates as a funded partner in sixteen European research and innovation projects under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, contributing risk assessment engines, business continuity leadership, vulnerability analysis and exploitation strategy to consortia spanning critical infrastructure security, climate and urban resilience, cultural heritage protection, food systems and health data.

The commercial logic is simple and unusual. Most consultancies apply yesterday's methods; a research active practice tests tomorrow's, under peer review, at European scale, with the results demonstrated at live installations rather than asserted in slideware. When 7SHIELD developed layered cyber physical protection for the ground segments of space systems, that capability became the pedigree inside our DAEDALUS Airport Resilience Framework. When WATSON and THETIDA required risk quantification engines, the measurement discipline flowed into our 7A Framework. The research is not a side interest; it is the sharpening stone.

Every project below is presented with its programme, grant agreement and Resilience Guard's specific funded role, because in research, as in resilience, the claims should be checkable.

Projects

Sixteen consortia

Programmes

Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe

Themes

Four

Our roles

Funded, named, verifiable

The portfolio across its four themes, and the single consulting practice it sharpens.

Security and critical infrastructure

Protecting the systems societies stand on

Security and critical infrastructure

7SHIELD

Protecting the ground segments of Europe's space systems. Horizon 2020, grant agreement 883284.

The research portfolio: consulting sharpened by science.

Why a consultancy does research

Protecting the systems societies stand on

7SHIELD

SPARROW

HERON

Resilience where climate meets daily life

euPOLIS

HEART

HARMONIA

BLOSSOM

AURORA

ISMED-CLIM

SOLUCIR

OCEANIDS

Continuity for the irreplaceable

HYPERION

YADES

THETIDA

Integrity and trust in critical chains

WATSON

PHASE IV AI

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