Dupin Rue

The Cyber Threat Analyst

The namesake: Edgar Allan Poe, whose 1841 tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” invented the detective story.
Dupin Rue — The Cyber Threat Analyst.
The namesake: Edgar Allan Poe, whose 1841 tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” invented the detective story.

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Every license is a dedicated hosted instance, deployed and kept up to date for you. Nothing to install on any seat.

AI Scenarios
3 Game Modes
2 Exclusive Minigames
5 Skill Domains
0 Software to Install

About this product

Dupin Rue drops players inside a live cyber incident and asks the questions a real team has to answer under pressure: what happened, how far did it reach, who did it, and what do we tell the executives in the next twenty minutes.

Three modes cover the career tracks the discipline actually splits into — investigator, threat analyst, and a fusion mode where both teams have to arrive at one cohesive message. Two minigames unique to the platform put the soft skills under the same scoring: an AI-driven interview tool that rewards good questioning technique, and a timed stakeholder engagement map that rewards telling the right people in the right order.

Mode 01 · Cyber Investigator

Embedded inside an organization responding to a live incident. Determine origin, scope, and culpability — then deliver the findings to leadership.

  • Insider threat attribution and evidence chain
  • Damage assessment and blast-radius mapping
  • Legal and compliance implications analysis
  • Stakeholder communication under time pressure
  • Digital forensics and artifact review

Mode 02 · Cyber Threat Analyst

Review a multi-incident campaign attributed to criminal or state-sponsored actors. Anticipate the next move and recommend mitigations before the next strike.

  • Attack campaign pattern recognition
  • Attribution: criminal vs. state-sponsored
  • Threat actor profiling and TTP mapping
  • Predictive mitigation and recommendations
  • Intelligence dissemination to stakeholders

Mode 03 · Cyber Fusion

Two teams converge, fusing technical forensics with all-source intelligence — learning to collaborate across both disciplines and deliver one cohesive message.

  • Synthesis of forensics with all-source intelligence
  • Cross-discipline collaboration and coordination
  • Interlocking analytical products from both teams
  • Linking events with no obvious connection
  • Speaking a shared language to one conclusion

AI-Powered Interview Tool

Conduct live interviews with AI-driven suspects, witnesses, and insiders. The character adjusts to your questioning technique — rewarding skilled interrogators and punishing poor tradecraft.

  • Character modulated in real time by interview approach
  • Archetypes: guilty insider, unwitting accomplice, evasive witness
  • Scored on technique, follow-up, and evidence extracted
  • Realistic organizational dynamics and privilege concerns

Stakeholder Engagement

Navigate an org chart under a strict clock — keeping executives, legal, compliance, and operations informed as the investigation moves.

  • Hierarchical stakeholder map tied to the scenario org
  • Stakeholders ranked Critical, Recommended, Optional
  • Scored on contact order, timeliness, and quality
  • Real-time outreach tracking and audit trail

Five Scored Skill Domains

Classification, delegation, collaboration, investigation, and dissemination — each measured separately, so a debrief can point at the specific thing to work on.

How it works

  1. Generate Scenario

    AI builds a realistic cyber incident or campaign with custom materials across all source types.

  2. Assign Roles

    Players take Team Leader, Analyst, Liaison, or Investigator seats with their own dashboards and access levels.

  3. Run the Exercise

    Teams investigate, interview suspects, brief stakeholders, and produce analytical products against the clock.

  4. Review & Score

    Automated scoring across all five domains, with playback for a complete after-action review.

Who it's for

Academic Programs

Bring experiential learning to cybersecurity, intelligence, and national security curricula.

  • Cybersecurity policy and law courses
  • Threat intelligence methodology
  • Digital forensics practicums
  • Graduate capstone exercises

Professional Training

Scalable analyst onboarding and advanced tradecraft development.

  • SOC analyst onboarding and certification
  • Incident response team exercises
  • Threat intelligence analyst development
  • Cross-functional leadership training

Skills Assessment

Objective, data-driven measurement of analytical and investigative capability.

  • Pre/post-training evaluation
  • Analyst competency benchmarking
  • Hiring and placement assessment
  • Professional certification testing

What a license includes

Delivery
Hosted — a dedicated instance provisioned and deployed for your organization.
Client
Any modern browser. Nothing to install, on any seat.
Custom domain
Served on your own hostname with TLS (e.g. woodhull.your-institution.edu).
AI access
An AI subscription (Anthropic or OpenAI) is required for scenario generation.
Updates
Engine and content updates delivered automatically to your instance.
Support
Onboarding, operator training, and email support included with the license.

The name “Dupin Rue”

From Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, widely held to be the first modern detective story. Its hero, C. Auguste Dupin, solves an apparently impossible crime through ratiocination — the disciplined fusion of observation, evidence, and inference. The “Rue” is the Rue Morgue itself.

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