An incident response tabletop exercise is a discussion-based practice that uses a hypothetical situation to coach a technical or executive audience through the cybersecurity incident response life ...

Zeus Kerravala is the founder of and principal analyst at ZK Research. Follow him on Twitter @zkerravala. Partnering with an outside organization on these exercises can offer additional benefits.

Suppose you have invested considerable time and money creating an Incident Response Plan (IRP) and delivering annual Tabletop Exercises (TTE) within your organization in the hopes that these efforts ...

A goal is not a strategy; a goal’s achievement depends on the availability of necessary resources and the ability of those wielding them to apply them successfully on the task at hand. Once all ...

With all the focus on artificial intelligence lately, this article provides a deep dive into incident response preparation and the importance of developing actual intelligence (of actual humans!).

It's Monday morning, 8 a.m. You walk into the office and, on your computer screen, you witness something you've only ever experienced in your nightmares. "Boom! Your organization is hit with a ...

Bill Edwards is a retired Army Colonel, Iraq War veteran and President of Federal and Public Safety at Building Intelligence Inc. Security and safety program development is a process that begins with ...

While more organizations have breach response plans in place, many are not testing these plans - or are doing a subpar job of conducting tabletop exercises, security experts say (see: Breach Response: ...

Tabletop exercises are a familiar component within the emergency management preparedness phase. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Emergency Exercise and Evaluation Program ...