What is a tabletop exercise? A tabletop exercise—sometimes abbreviated TTX or TTE—is an informal, discussion-based session in which a team discusses their roles and responses during an emergency, ...

Developing an emergency operations plan (EOP) is no easy feat but it was a task Michael Reidenbach gladly took on. The EOP for Charleston County School District, which consists of 82 schools, hadn’t ...

Every 39 seconds some company is being hit by a cyberattack. Security incidents are a constant threat, an inevitability rather than a possibility. An incident response plan can help organizations as ...

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 ...

Organizations that are regularly defending against cyberattacks can find it useful to occasionally take a step back and test their defense and response capabilities. One way to do this is through ...

All companies have found themselves in an unfortunate situation due to a lack of foresight and planning. A tried-and-true method for mitigating the unknown is the tabletop exercise. Tabletop exercises ...

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 ...