Tabletop Exercises

A Tabletop Exercise is the next step up from an incident response plan, where you can test your team’s response to unique incidents that your organization might face.

Overview

Whether you need to refine your processes for isolating systems, your executive team wants to practice their legal and PR response to incidents, or your technical team has notions to test new industrial technologies, Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) can build custom Tabletop Exercises specific to you and your organization.

The Talos IR team is vendor and tool agnostic, which means that we truly can test anything within your environment. We can also build Tabletop Exercises that align with larger crisis management, disaster recovery, or business continuity processes across your organization. 
Benefits
  • Gain deeper insight into the effectiveness of your incident response plan.
  • Choose from a gamified or traditional exercise.
  • Identify potential gaps in your existing solutions.
  • Utilize insights to understand and test connections to crisis management or business continuity plans.
Step-by-step Process
  • Scoping: identify the exercise type and scenario, and decide if you want to bring in third parties, agencies, etc.
  • Build: Talos IR will build the customized attack path.
  • Execution: Each Tabletop Exercise is 2–3 hours long and can be delivered in-person, remote, or hybrid.
  • Analysis: Get a report that details your organization’s successes and any opportunities for improvement.

Sample Timeline

Security expertise at your fingertips

When you partner with Cisco Talos IR, you ensure your organization has direct access to unique and actionable threat intelligence, world-class emergency response capabilities, and unmatched expertise to help you be prepared for what’s now and what’s next. 

Next Steps

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IncidentResponse@cisco.com

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