Tabletop Exercises Program
Structured, facilitated simulations of cybersecurity incidents designed to test your organization's incident response capabilities, processes, and decision-making. Our exercises create realistic scenarios to identify gaps, improve coordination, and enhance your incident response effectiveness.
In scope
- Incident response plan review
- Custom scenario development
- Exercise facilitation
- Decision point evaluation
- Interdepartmental coordination assessment
- Communications procedure testing
- Executive decision-making assessment
You receive
- Exercise findings report
- IR plan improvement recommendations
- Incident response procedure gaps
- Response timeline analysis
- Communications effectiveness assessment
- Executive briefing
- Follow-up exercise roadmap
Tiers
Choose the depth.
Basic Response Exercise
$28K
Single scenario tabletop exercise focused on technical incident response procedures
- participants
- 15
- Objectives
- 1
- sessions
- 1
- — Management and communications team exercise
- — Executive participation and executive briefing
- — Multiple scenarios
- — Follow-up exercise
Advanced Exercise Program
$45K
Up to 3 scenarios over up to 3 sessions for up to 30 participants, testing technical, communications and management response separately. Adds communications effectiveness assessment, executive briefing, and a follow-up exercise roadmap.
- participants
- 30
- Objectives
- 3
- sessions
- 3
- Everything in the basic tier
- Up to 3 scenarios across technical, communications and management teams
- Communications procedure testing
- Executive briefing of results
- Follow-up exercise roadmap
- — Single combined simulation with executives, legal and PR in the room
- — Escalating injects across business units
- — Crisis communications drafting
Comprehensive Crisis Simulation
$75K
Full-day crisis simulation plus preparation sessions: up to 5 escalating scenarios over up to 4 sessions for up to 60 participants from executives, technical teams, legal, PR and business units, with live injects and decision-point scoring.
- participants
- 60
- Objectives
- 5
- sessions
- 4
- Everything in the advanced tier
- Full-day multi-team crisis simulation
- Up to 5 escalating scenarios with live injects
- Executive decision-making assessment
- Interdepartmental coordination assessment
- Executive and board-level briefing
- — Technical attack simulation against live systems
- — Rewriting the IR plan
- — Recurring quarterly exercises
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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