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The Value of an Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

An incident response tabletop exercise is when you test your plan to ensure that it’s going to work. It’s a little bit like a fire drill.

You don’t want to be learning about the exit routes and where to stand in the parking lot on the day of the fire. You want to practice that in advance. We can do the same thing with an information security incident response exercise.

What Should We Know for a Data Breach Tabletop Exercise?

We want to make sure the day that something bad happens, that we’ve already run through the plan in real-time, and we know:

  • Who the right players are
  • Who our insurance provider is
  • How to call the insurance provider
  • How to get ahold of local law enforcement if we’re going to call them
  • Who all our team members are and their roles and responsibilities
  • The call tree

Everybody’s cybersecurity incident response plan is going to be a little bit unique. However, the tabletop exercise is an opportunity to get the key stakeholders in a room and run them through exercise scenarios, ask real-world questions, and see how they respond. You’ll know you did it right when you have a lot of notes and a lot of changes to your plan in an action report.

Do You Need to Perform Your Incident Response Exercise?

Incident management is very important. Does your business know what to do in the event of an actual incident? Whether it’s a business email compromise, cyber attack, data breach, fire, natural disaster, or some other type of incident, your business needs to be prepared.

By taking the time to complete discussion-based incident response exercises and training, you are improving your organization’s cyber resilience. Book a call with us today, and let us walk you through the incident response tabletop exercise—so that you and your employees are better prepared for whatever happens tomorrow.