An incident response plan only works if people know how to use it under pressure. Our tabletop exercises walk your leadership and technical teams through a realistic attack, decision by decision, so gaps in roles, communication and procedures surface in a conference room instead of during a real incident. They are part of our incident response services.
Scenarios are built around the threats your organization actually faces, for example:
We run a business-focused session for leadership (decisions, legal, communications, insurance and regulators) and a technical session for IT and security (detection, containment, evidence and recovery), or a combined session if that suits your organization.
An experienced incident responder facilitates the exercise and introduces new developments as it unfolds, such as a ransom note, a reporter calling or a backup that fails to restore, to test how your team adapts.
You receive a written report with what went well, the gaps we found and prioritized recommendations for your incident response plan, playbooks, contacts and training. It also serves as evidence that your plan was tested.
We review your incident response plan, team structure and recent risks, and agree on objectives, participants and the scenario.
We build a realistic scenario and a set of injects tailored to your systems, industry and regulatory obligations.
We run the session, typically two to four hours, guiding participants through each decision point and capturing what happens.
We document observations, gaps and prioritized recommendations, and walk your leadership through the findings.
We help you update the incident response plan and playbooks, and can repeat the exercise later with a new scenario to measure improvement.
Schedule a call to plan a tabletop exercise for your leadership and technical teams.
Tell us what you need and a senior consultant will reply within one business day with next steps or a quote. Prefer to talk? Book a call.
Everyone with a role in a real incident: executive leadership, IT and security, legal, communications, HR and finance as needed. Many organizations also invite their MSP, outside counsel or cyber insurance contacts.
At least once a year, and after major changes such as a new system, a merger or a real incident. Many frameworks expect the incident response plan to be tested regularly, for example PCI DSS requires it at least annually.
Yes. The exercise tests your own plan and contacts. If you do not have a plan yet, we can help you create one first or run a scenario that shows what it needs to cover.
Yes. Exercises work well in person or over video conference.
Insurers, auditors and regulators increasingly ask whether your incident response plan has been tested. The after-action report gives you documented evidence that it has.
Pricing depends on the number of sessions, participants and the level of scenario customization. We provide a fixed quote after a free scoping call.
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