{"id":1610,"date":"2021-12-07T03:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T03:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2021-12-07T03:18:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T03:18:35","slug":"tabletop-exercises-six-sample-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/2021\/12\/07\/tabletop-exercises-six-sample-scenarios\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabletop exercises: Six sample scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A tabletop exercise<\/strong> is an informal, discussion-based session in which a team talks through their roles and responses during an emergency, walking through one or more example scenarios. It’s a great way to get business continuity plans off the written page without the interruption of a full-scale drill: rather than actually simulating a disaster, a group within the company gathers for a few hours to talk through a simulated crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exercise is increasingly a staple of IT security preparedness programs. “I find that companies who have a healthy respect for their cyber risk are the ones doing tabletops,” says Dan Burke, Senior VP and National Cyber Practice Leader at Woodruff Sawyer. “Designing an incident response plan<\/a> is beneficial, but putting it to the test will give you the practical insights that only come from experience.”[ Learn How to plan an effective tabletop exercise<\/a> and check out some sample scenarios<\/a>. | Sign up for CSO newsletters<\/a>. ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re new to the idea of tabletop exercises and want a solid overview of what’s goes into one, check out our in-depth explainer on the topic<\/a>.<\/em> But if you have a handle on the basics and are thinking about how you can most effectively implement a tabletop exercise at your own organization, then read on. We’ve collected some tips on best practices from a range of security pros, who have also helped us put together some example scenarios that should give you some ideas for your own exercises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tabletop exercise is an informal, discussion-based session in which a team talks through their roles and responses during an emergency, walking through one or more example scenarios. It’s a great way to get business continuity plans off the written page without the interruption of a full-scale drill: rather than actually simulating a disaster, a group within […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1612,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/azhari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}