Chapter 10The Tabletop Exercise
Dylan, Brent, and Harmony were in the ZTC basement conference room standing in front of the projection screen. The lights in the room were actually working for the first time. The conference table in the center of the room had been replaced with two large desks in an L shape. Shelves of old equipment lined the walls behind the desks. A green couch and three pieces of furniture formed a U shape. An old rug had been placed in the middle of the U shape, with the projection screen at the open end. The desks were covered with stickers. And Dylan noticed a red door on the other side of the room for the first time.
“What's behind that red door?” Dylan asked.
Harmony almost spit out the drink she was taking. “Oh, nothing. It's just a boring old storeroom where we keep our snibbets.”
“What's a snibbet?” Dylan asked.
“It's a kind of plange,” Harmony explained.
“Are you making an IT Crowd reference?” Dylan laughed as he recalled the dialogue from the BBC TV comedy from the 2000s. Brent hadn't gotten the reference.
“Maybe,” Harmony said with just the faintest hint of a smile. “Oh, look, Chris and Peter are joining the call.” Their Zoom video feed popped up and the three of them turned to the screen and began talking.
“I've done a tabletop exercise before, and it seems like a good idea to do one, but is that really a Zero Trust project?” Brent asked the group without looking up from his laptop.
“Part of the monitor and maintain phase means that we need to ...
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