DR/IR/BCP Trifecta Tabletop Exercise
Comprehensive multi-scenario tabletop exercise program that integrates Disaster Recovery, Incident Response, and Business Continuity Planning into a unified preparedness assessment. Our specialized approach tests your organization's ability to handle cascading incidents that impact technology infrastructure, security operations, and business operations simultaneously, providing a holistic view of organizational resilience and cross-functional coordination capabilities.
In scope
- Integrated assessment of DR
- IR
- and BCP current state capabilities (12 hours)
- Cross-functional team readiness evaluation and role validation (8 hours)
- Multi-domain threat landscape analysis and cascading scenario development (10 hours)
- Comprehensive tabletop exercise facilitation with escalating scenarios (8 hours)
- Real-time decision-making assessment across technical and business functions (6 hours)
- Cross-departmental communication and coordination testing (4 hours)
- Executive crisis management and decision authority validation (4 hours)
- Resource allocation and priority assessment during multi-domain incidents (4 hours)
- Vendor and third-party coordination during complex scenarios (3 hours)
- Regulatory compliance and reporting requirements during cascading incidents (3 hours)
- Recovery coordination between IT systems and business operations (4 hours)
- Post-exercise comprehensive analysis and improvement planning (6 hours)
You receive
- Comprehensive trifecta assessment report (25-30 pages)
- Integrated maturity assessment across DR
- IR
- and BCP domains
- Cross-functional capability gap analysis with prioritized recommendations
- Multi-scenario exercise findings with timeline analysis
- Executive decision-making effectiveness assessment
- Inter-departmental coordination and communication evaluation
- Integrated improvement roadmap with cross-domain dependencies
- Resource allocation optimization recommendations
- Vendor and third-party coordination enhancement plan
- Regulatory compliance readiness across all domains
- Cascading incident response playbook development
- Executive briefing with board-ready metrics and ROI analysis
- 180-day follow-up assessment and progress review plan
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Entry — market-sized scope
$9.5K
Scoped like the market's version of this work (AI-facilitated tabletop (async format)): a fixed, smaller engagement that leads into the Essential Trifecta Exercise tier.
- participants
- 10
- Objectives
- 1
- sessions
- 1
- — Review of existing DR, IR or BCP plans
- — Custom scenario development
- — Live multi-day facilitated exercise
- — Maturity assessment and improvement roadmap
Essential Trifecta Exercise
$55K
Current-state review of DR, IR and BCP plans, then 2 live facilitated cascading scenarios over 2 sessions for up to 20 participants. Report with integrated maturity ratings, roadmap and a 180-day follow-up plan.
- participants
- 20
- Objectives
- 2
- sessions
- 2
- hours
- 72
- DR, IR and BCP current-state assessment
- 2 cascading scenarios built for the organization
- 2 live facilitated exercise sessions
- Cross-functional gap analysis and roadmap
- 25-30 page report and executive briefing
- — Separate executive crisis simulation
- — Delivery of the 180-day follow-up review (plan only)
- — Cascading incident playbook authoring
- — More than 20 participants
Comprehensive Trifecta Program
$85K
Up to 3 scenarios over 4 sessions for up to 40 participants, including a dedicated executive crisis simulation, per-department coordination analysis, a cascading-incident playbook, and the 180-day follow-up review delivered. 115 consulting hours.
- participants
- 40
- Objectives
- 3
- sessions
- 4
- hours
- 115
- months
- 6
- Everything in the Essential tier
- Dedicated executive crisis simulation session
- Per-department coordination and communication analysis
- Cascading incident response playbook
- 180-day follow-up assessment session
- — Recurring quarterly exercises
- — Crisis simulation gaming platform access
- — Executive one-to-one coaching
Enterprise Resilience Transformation
$135K
Advanced multi-domain program with custom scenario development, crisis simulation gaming platform, quarterly integrated exercises, executive coaching, and ongoing organizational resilience optimization
- participants
- 75
- Objectives
- 6
- sessions
- 8
- — Live technical failover or recovery testing
- — Rewriting the DR, IR and BCP plans themselves
- — Incident response retainer hours
Members: engagement coupons from the CISO Marketplace coupon book apply to services. There is no blanket discount.
What's inside this engagement
Phase by phase.
How a incident response readiness engagement runs, what happens in each phase and what you see. Exact scope, tier and timeline are fixed in your proposal and SOW.
01Current-state review
Plans, playbooks, contacts, logging and insurance requirements reviewed.
You see · Your IR plan and insurance policy.
02Scenario design
Scenarios chosen for your threat profile: ransomware, BEC, insider, cloud compromise.
You see · Participant list and scenario sign-off.
03Exercise / readiness work
Tabletop facilitation or readiness build-out, depending on the service.
You see · Your team's time in the room.
04After-action report
Gaps found, decisions that stalled, and an improvement plan with owners.
You see · A report your board and insurer can read.
Commercials
From first call to final report.
- 01
Scoping call
A practitioner, not a salesperson, walks through targets, constraints and what a good outcome looks like for you.
- 02
Proposal & rules of engagement
A fixed-scope proposal with tier, price and deliverables. Rules of engagement, contacts and out-of-bounds systems are agreed in writing.
- 03
Sign, then start
MSA and SOW are signed electronically and the deposit is paid. Only then does testing begin.
- 04
Execution
Testing runs to the agreed plan. Critical findings are escalated as they are found; you don't wait for the report.
- 05
Report & debrief
An executive summary plus technical findings with evidence, reproduction steps and fixes, walked through with your team.
- 06
Retest
Where the tier includes it, we verify your fixes and reissue the report, so auditors and customers see the issues closed.
Timelines are set per engagement in the SOW.
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