Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises

INTRODUCTION

Nearly every day, we receive calls from clients who tell us things like “The board asked us to perform a tabletop exercise by the end of the year” or “Our auditors want us to test our incident response process, and we don’t know how.”

Chances are, if you’ve picked up this book, you, too, have been tasked with helping your organization prepare for a future cybersecurity incident, perhaps through the use of a tabletop exercise. In a tabletop exercise, members of an organization gather to discuss how they would respond to a potential future event or emergency. We’ll dive into the specific characteristics of cybersecurity tabletop ...