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Cyber tabletop exercises

The first hour of a cyber incident is not the time to find out.

A tabletop exercise puts your team in that first hour on a day of your choosing. Four hours at a table, no systems touched, nothing at risk.


Start with one question
An executive team in a glass-walled conference room, working late

Why organizations run one

Three reasons, and none of them is a slide deck.

Nothing is touched

A facilitated, discussion-based simulation. No systems go down and production is never at risk — which is why the people who actually decide can be in the room.

Exercises fail on decisions, not technology

Your controls are audited every year. Your decision-making never has been. An exercise is the only place it gets tested.

You leave with a ranked list

Gaps ranked, with owners and next steps. Something your team can work from on Monday, not a report to file.

What it surfaces

The questions nobody asks until it is two in the morning.

  • Who declares an incident, and how long that takes
  • Whether the escalation path survives one person being unreachable
  • What legal, communications and operations each assume the others are doing
  • Whether the plan on the shelf matches the plan in people's heads
  • Where staffing depth is not there at two in the morning
A leadership team working a simulated ransomware scenario at a conference table
A scenario in progress

You leave knowing which gaps are real and which were only theoretical.

Scoped in a 30-minute call. Delivered on site or remote.

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