Incident Response Readiness & Tabletop Exercise
Comprehensive incident response assessment and tabletop exercise designed to validate your organization's IR preparedness through focused policy review, stakeholder coordination validation, and scenario-based team exercises. Our specialized approach combines industry-standard IR maturity assessment with practical tabletop simulations to enhance your incident response capabilities, team coordination, and regulatory compliance readiness.
In scope
- Comprehensive IR policy review and gap analysis against industry standards (6 hours)
- Current incident response capability maturity assessment (4 hours)
- Insurance and legal coordination validation with carrier requirements (4 hours)
- Threat landscape analysis and scenario development (6 hours)
- Multi-scenario tabletop exercise facilitation (4 hours)
- Team readiness discussion and role validation session (3 hours)
- Interactive Q&A on IR procedures and decision-making (2 hours)
- OSINT research on insurance claims history and provider ecosystem (3 hours)
- Process walkthrough using developed scenarios with timing analysis (4 hours)
- Communication and escalation pathway validation (2 hours)
- Technical response capability assessment (4 hours)
- Post-exercise analysis and improvement recommendations (3 hours)
You receive
- Comprehensive IR readiness assessment report (15-20 pages)
- Current state vs. industry benchmark analysis
- Priority recommendations matrix with timeline and resource requirements
- Validated quick reference contact sheet and escalation procedures
- 3-5 relevant walkthrough scenarios based on threat intelligence
- Detailed after-action report from tabletop exercise
- Process improvement recommendations with implementation roadmap
- Team readiness assessment with skills gap analysis
- Insurance and legal coordination optimization plan
- Communication template library for various incident types
- Regulatory compliance mapping and requirements
- Executive summary with board-ready metrics
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Essential IR Assessment & Tabletop
$25K
IR policy review and maturity rating, insurance and legal contact validation, then one 3-4 hour tabletop with up to 2 scenarios for up to 15 participants. 45 consulting hours, after-action report and priority recommendations.
- participants
- 15
- Objectives
- 2
- sessions
- 1
- hours
- 45
- IR policy gap analysis and maturity rating
- Insurance carrier and legal coordination check
- One 3-4 hour facilitated tabletop
- Validated contact sheet and escalation procedures
- After-action report with priority matrix
- — Stakeholder interviews beyond the core IR team
- — Full-day exercise
- — Regulatory reporting requirements mapping
- — Follow-up review after the report
Comprehensive IR Readiness Program
$42.5K
Adds up to 10 stakeholder interviews, one full-day tabletop with up to 3 scenarios for up to 30 participants, a 15-20 page after-action report, regulatory reporting requirements mapping, and a 90-day follow-up review. 80 consulting hours.
- participants
- 30
- Objectives
- 3
- sessions
- 2
- hours
- 80
- months
- 3
- Everything in the Essential tier
- Up to 10 stakeholder interviews
- Full-day immersive tabletop
- Regulatory reporting requirements mapping
- Communication template library
- 90-day follow-up review session
- — Separate executive-only exercise
- — Crisis simulation gaming platform access
- — Recurring quarterly assessments
Enterprise IR Transformation
$67.5K
Advanced incident response program with multi-scenario exercises, crisis simulation gaming platform access, executive briefings, custom scenario development, and quarterly maturity assessments
- participants
- 50
- Objectives
- 5
- sessions
- 5
- — Incident response retainer or live incident handling
- — Rewriting the full IR plan
- — Technical attack simulation against production systems
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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