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BreachRx vs iluminr: which crisis simulation platform fits your team?

THE SHORT ANSWER

On our published weights iluminr scores 7.55 and BreachRx 6.75. BreachRx scores higher on customisation; iluminr scores higher on executive and board focus, exercise delivery effort, measurement and after-action reporting and regulatory evidence; they tie on scenario realism and pricing clarity.

By The Exercise Desk · Crisis Simulation Ranked · Published 2026-10-11

Desk research from public vendor pages, vendor announcements and standards documents read between 27 September and 13 October 2026. Editorial assessment; we did not run any exercise on these platforms.

How do BreachRx and iluminr score on each criterion?

BreachRx and iluminr: crisis readiness score (editorial assessment, 0 to 10)
Criterion	Weight	BreachRx	iluminr	Higher score
Scenario realism	20%	Rex AI's Exercise Agent builds organisation-specific scenarios around emerging threats, incident types, business units and dependencies, and live orchestration delivers scenario developments during the exercise; a scenario that branches on each decision is not described. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	Real-time injects and immersive media, with AI assessing each response against the organisation's own plans; a scenario that branches on each decision is not described. Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Executive and board focus	20%	Enterprise-wide exercises bring security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners together, and reports include executive summaries; board dashboards are not described. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	Built for boards, executives, crisis teams and risk functions, with board-ready dashboards. Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026	iluminr
Exercise delivery effort	15%	The Exercise Agent generates moderator guides, timelines, injects, decision points and participant materials, and the vendor names a monthly or biweekly cadence; a human moderator still runs the session. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	Microsimulations of 3–5 minutes for one person and 30–45 minutes for a team make frequent practice practical. Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026	iluminr
Measurement and after-action reporting	15%	After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically and fed back into response workflows for a retest. Benchmarking across teams is not described. Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026	Behavioural evidence (decision velocity, confidence, alignment) and benchmarking by department, region and role. Source: iluminr blog: continuous capability intelligence (18 August 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026	iluminr
Regulatory evidence	10%	Cyber RegScout brings regulatory context into the exercise, updating tasks, deadlines and disclosure milestones as the scenario changes; mapping of results to named frameworks is not described on the pages reviewed. Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026	Nine named frameworks on the homepage, including DORA, APRA CPS 230, ISO 22301 and FFIEC, plus automated board-ready regulatory reports citing DORA, NIS2, CER and APRA CPS 230. Source: iluminr press release: continuous capability intelligence (PRWeb, 25 August 2026) · Read 11 Oct 2026	iluminr
Customisation	10%	Scenarios are generated for the organisation's business units and dependencies and test its own response playbooks inside the Rex Platform. Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026	The AI Context Engine draws on the organisation's continuity and GRC data; authoring tools are not described in detail. Source: iluminr blog: continuous capability intelligence (18 August 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026	BreachRx
Pricing clarity	10%	No price published; the route in is a demo. A free, facilitated exercise is offered only to qualifying healthcare providers. Source: BreachRx homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026	No price published on the pricing page. Source: iluminr pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026	Tie
Total	100%			iluminr

Which stages of an exercise does each cover?

Build: Documented
The Rex AI Exercise Agent builds organisation-specific scenarios around emerging threats, incident types, business units and dependencies.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Adapt: Partial
Live orchestration delivers scenario developments during the exercise; branching on each decision is not described.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Seats: Documented
Enterprise-wide exercises for security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners, or focused micro-exercises for one team.
Source: BreachRx: AI Tabletops (Rex Platform) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Run: Partial
Moderator guides, timelines and discussion prompts are generated; the free healthcare exercise is run by BreachRx facilitators.
Source: BreachRx blog: free tabletop exercise for healthcare providers (6 October 2026) · Read 13 Oct 2026
Report: Documented
After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically.
Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026
Map: Partial
Cyber RegScout adds regulatory deadlines and disclosure milestones to the exercise; framework mapping of results is not described.
Source: BreachRx: Rex agentic AI · Read 13 Oct 2026

A solid segment means the vendor's own pages describe that stage. It shows coverage, not quality; the scores judge quality.

Build: Documented
The AI Context Engine draws on business continuity and GRC data during scenarios (August 2026 update).
Source: iluminr blog: continuous capability intelligence (18 August 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026
Adapt: Partial
Real-time injects and immersive media; AI assesses each response against the organisation's own plans. Branching on each decision is not described.
Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Seats: Documented
Built for boards, executives, crisis teams and risk functions; single-player microsimulations and team exercises.
Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Run: Partial
Live QR polling supports in-room sessions; who facilitates a tabletop is not described on the pages reviewed.
Source: iluminr blog: continuous capability intelligence (18 August 2026) · Read 27 Sep 2026
Report: Documented
Board-ready dashboards and regulatory reports, benchmarking by department, region and role, and behavioural evidence such as decision velocity, confidence, alignment and blind spots.
Source: iluminr press release: continuous capability intelligence (PRWeb, 25 August 2026) · Read 11 Oct 2026
Map: Documented
Evidence mapped to DORA, ISO 22301, APRA CPS 230, FCA/PRA, NIST CSF, UK Operational Resilience, ISO 27001, FFIEC and OSFI E-21, with automated regulatory reporting.
Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026

A solid segment means the vendor's own pages describe that stage. It shows coverage, not quality; the scores judge quality.

BreachRx documents 3 of 6 stages and iluminr documents 4 of 6.

What do they cost?

BreachRx

Packaging: One module of the Rex Platform, alongside incident response management, Rex AI, out-of-band communications and Cyber RegScout; access through a demo.

Not published BreachRx publishes no prices and has no pricing page in its navigation; the route in is a demo. A free, facilitated exercise is offered to qualifying hospitals and healthcare providers (October 2026).

Source: BreachRx homepage · Read 13 Oct 2026

iluminr

Packaging: A resilience exercising platform with several modules; pricing through sales.

Not published iluminr's pricing page publishes no prices.

Source: iluminr pricing · Read 27 Sep 2026

Which frameworks do they map results to?

BreachRx

None named on the pages reviewed

iluminr

DORA
ISO 22301
APRA CPS 230
FCA/PRA
NIST CSF
UK Operational Resilience
ISO 27001
FFIEC
OSFI E-21
NIS2
CER

Source: iluminr homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026

Source: iluminr press release: continuous capability intelligence (PRWeb, 25 August 2026) · Read 11 Oct 2026

Which should you choose?

Choose BreachRx if

Executive and board focus: 8 / 10, Enterprise-wide exercises bring security, legal, privacy, IT, communications, risk, business leaders, executives and outside partners together, and reports include executive summaries; board dashboards are not described.
Measurement and after-action reporting: 8 / 10, After-action reports, executive summaries, gap analyses and prioritised improvements; gaps and observations are captured automatically and fed back into response workflows for a retest. Benchmarking across teams is not described.
Exercises inside an incident response platform

Choose iluminr if

Regulatory evidence: 10 / 10, Nine named frameworks on the homepage, including DORA, APRA CPS 230, ISO 22301 and FFIEC, plus automated board-ready regulatory reports citing DORA, NIS2, CER and APRA CPS 230.
Executive and board focus: 9 / 10, Built for boards, executives, crisis teams and risk functions, with board-ready dashboards.
Board-level evidence for regulated firms

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Frequently asked questions

Is BreachRx or iluminr better for executive crisis exercises?

iluminr scores higher on executive and board focus (9 against 8 out of 10). Read each profile for the detail.

Which is easier to run, BreachRx or iluminr?

iluminr scores higher on delivery effort, where a higher score means less effort, (8 against 7 out of 10). Read each profile for the detail.

Do BreachRx and iluminr publish prices?

Neither BreachRx nor iluminr publishes a price for its exercise product.