Conducting an Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

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Every day, organizations face a barrage of attacks from cybercriminals looking to gain access to IT systems to steal sensitive data or otherwise do harm. To ready themselves for this, organizations must prepare a robust incident response plan that can be quickly and effectively deployed to address cyber threats that arise.

Tabletop exercises are a powerful way to understand where you have weaknesses and how you can strengthen your response to incidents when they occur. By simulating real-world scenarios, tabletop exercises allow you to test your incident response plans in a controlled environment and develop “muscle memory” for your planned response, as well as identify any gaps in your existing plans.

In this dynamic session, a panel of ArmorText and Crowell advisors will share insights from the recently published guide, Cyber Resilience: Incident Response Tabletop Exercises 2023, and their hands-on experience conducting tabletop exercises for leading organizations. Topics will include:

• Why tabletop exercises are important.
• How to plan for reality, not a hypothetical.
• Common challenges of tabletop exercises.
• Recent real-world examples hacks and attacks.
• Selecting participants for your tabletop exercise.
• Navigating the modules in Cyber Resilience.
• The missing step zero in IR plans: How to communicate securely.

Questions - For questions, please contact Maggie Weschler.