Introducing the Security Alliance Wargames Drill Scenario Template

Isaac Patka and Kelsie Nabben. October 31, 2024

This research is supported by Ethereum Foundation Academic Grants 2024. This post is a practical toolkit inspired by the work of SEAL and research insights from Part 1. For the Part 1 research article, see Governing Blockchain Security: White Hat Hackers ‘Code of Conduct’.

For over a year, the Security Alliance has been running free red team exercises to help prepare developers and security teams for the next attack and war room on their project. To better scale our program, we’re offering a DIY option for projects who don’t want to sit in our waitlist: the Security Alliance Wargames Drill Scenario Template.

The template is an open source GitHub repository to provide protocol teams with the steps and tools that the SEAL Wargames Team uses to coordinate drills. This includes:

• The steps required to plan and execute a wargames drills scenario
• A Foundry & Hardhat setup for developing & testing scenarios on a local fork
• Configurations for running a live fork on Tenderly
• A template for a tabletop exercise
• A template typescript bot service (inspired by a real drill with Optimism)
• A template monitoring bot service with connections to Prometheus, Grafana, and OpsGenie (inspired by a real drill with Optimism)

To access the template repo or provide comments and feedback, see here.

For an overview of the template via video walkthrough with SEAL Wargames lead Isaac Patka, see here.

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