Nearly 40 national entities and 240 participants spent three days testing their cyber readiness on CybExer’s cyber range during Jordan’s 2026 National Cyber Drill, organised by the National Cyber Security Center and delivered with support from CybExer partner Alpha Hub.
CybExer Technologies was proud to provide the cyber range technology for the drill, which took place from 17 to 19 August 2026 and concluded with a closing ceremony in Amman.
The exercise brought together close to 40 national entities from critical infrastructure sectors, government institutions, universities, and regulatory and supervisory authorities. A total of 165 participants took part in the technical track, while 75 participated in the management track.
The two tracks ran in parallel, testing different but closely connected aspects of national cyber readiness.
The technical track was a live fire exercise conducted on CybExer’s cyber range. Teams faced advanced cyberattack scenarios and worked to detect and analyse incidents, contain threats, and carry out response and recovery procedures under time pressure.
At the same time, the management track used a tabletop exercise to put senior leaders in the role of crisis decision makers. Participants had to make strategic and organisational decisions during a cyber crisis while addressing the legal, regulatory, communications, business continuity, and recovery challenges that can accompany a major incident.
On the final day, the technical and management tracks came together in a joint exercise, connecting operational response with senior level decision making. A closing review then assessed performance and identified lessons learned, before participating organisations and contributors were recognised at the closing ceremony.
Speaking at the closing, NCSC President Eng. Mohammad Al-Smadi said that the conclusion of the exercise marked an important milestone on the path of building national cyber readiness. He affirmed that the real value of cyber drills of this kind lies in the move from theoretical knowledge to the practical testing of institutions' capabilities, and in measuring the extent of their readiness to deal with cyber incidents and attacks under conditions that simulate reality.
Al-Smadi added that the exercise gave the participating institutions a real opportunity to test their technical and administrative capabilities, to identify strengths and areas for improvement, and to strengthen coordination between the technical teams and senior management. He noted that the NCSC will work to make use of the exercise's outputs and the lessons learned from it in enhancing the level of national response and raising the competence of institutions and of the personnel working in the field of cybersecurity.
An exercise of this scale depends on close coordination between participating organisations and a realistic technical environment. CybExer’s cyber range provided that environment, allowing teams to test how they would respond to a major cybersecurity incident under pressure.
What remains after the three days is not the scoreboard. It is the lessons learned, the capabilities tested, and the stronger coordination established between Jordan’s national teams.
CybExer is proud to have supported the NCSC and its partners in delivering an exercise that strengthens Jordan’s national cyber readiness.
See the National Cyber Security Center’s highlights from the exercise on LinkedIn.
