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Your organization has plans and procedures in place to handle the problems that come up – things like a fire at your office, a cybersecurity attack, or even a global pandemic. Emergencies happen, and it’s important to have comprehensive plans to handle them and resume normal business operations as quickly as possible. Whether it’s Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Response, or a combination, these plans need to be tested to make sure they will function properly during a real emergency.
During a tabletop exercise, one of our analysts walks you through a simulated emergency, like a natural disaster or cybersecurity attack. You and your team simulate the performance of documented response and recovery activities, noting any gaps or missing action items. By facilitating the walkthrough and reviewing your existing plans, our analysts use their wealth of expertise to provide recommendations for improved disaster recovery and incident response.
Guided Emergency Scenarios
Our experts walk your team through structured scenarios while they perform documented response activities in real time.
After Action
Review
After each tabletop exercise, our analyst moderates an open discussion of gaps noticed during testing by both the analyst and your team.
Expert Recommendations
Information Security Analysts provide advice and best practices to make your plans and procedures more functional and efficient.
Plan & Procedure Improvements
With every tabletop exercise, you can verify how effective your plans are, make necessary adjustments, and feel prepared when a real event occurs.
Tabletop Testing Scenarios
Each tabletop exercise is based on one of two scenario types: natural disasters and cybersecurity incidents. Whether nature- or man-made,
your organizations needs to be prepared to respond to and recover from a variety of emergency situations.
Natural Disasters
Based on your location, there are a variety of natural disasters that pose threats to your employees, offices, customers, and business operations. Even if you have advanced notice of impending weather, you need to have a structured plan in place to communicate response and recovery actions for things like:
Cybersecurity Incidents
No matter where you are, attackers can attempt to target and compromise your devices and systems. Whether the attacker walks in your front door or sends phishing emails from thousands of miles away, you need to be ready for cybersecurity incidents like:
Learn More About Tabletop Testing
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Identify the differences between Incident Response and others, the usefulness of them, and what NIST and FFIEC regulations have to say about them.
Webinar: Tabletop Testing
Watch the webinar on the tabletop testing process and how it helps prepare your organization for emergencies and incidents.
What is Tabletop Testing?
Tabletop testing is becoming the new standard for financial institutions – and is now an annual requirements for credit unions per the NCUA.