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Tabletop exercises and cyber crisis simulation

Practice team decisions, collaboration, and reaction before a real crisis.

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In a major incident, technical teams and management must coordinate decisions that can influence the organization's activity. The Safetech Innovations tabletop exercises create a facilitated framework in which participants can walk through crisis scenarios, discuss options and observe how responsibilities and response processes work.

The simulation makes the preparation gaps visible and turns observations into improvement actions. The scenario is adapted to the objectives, teams and context of your organization.

Utility and benefits

The exercises are aimed at executive management, technical teams and those involved in crisis management.
By participating, you can:

Practice coordination

Clarifying how teams collaborate and formulate decisions

Identify gaps

Observing difficulties in implementing plans, communication, and taking responsibility

Set priorities

Turning findings into an action plan for preparing the organization

Documented results can support evidence of training and exercises, in relation to the requirements applicable to the agreed area.

Features of the service

Tabletop Exercises & Cyber Crisis Simulation is a decision-making and collaboration exercise, coordinated by a facilitator. Participants analyze the proposed situations and explain how they would react, using the available roles, procedures, and information.
The scenarios can address ransomware, an executive crisis, OT/SCADA incidents or technical situations relevant to the organization. We select the theme and level of detail together, so that the exercise follows the problems and objectives set.

The activity follows the reaction of the teams in a simulated scenario. The technical verification of the systems and the intervention on a real incident have separate objectives and conditions.

Stages of the exercise:

1. Define objectives and participants

We clarify what you want to check, the teams involved, the relevant roles and processes. We agree on the duration and limits of the exercise.

2. Building the scenario

We prepare the proposed situations and the facilitation guide, adapted to the context of the organization and the objectives pursued.

3. Facilitating the simulation

We guide the participants through the scenario, support the discussion and follow the way decisions are formulated and coordinated.

4. Observation and analysis of reactions

We document the difficulties and gaps identified in relation to the objectives of the exercise. We discuss the observations with the participating teams.

5. Reporting and action plan

We bring together the conclusions and recommendations to improve the organization’s processes and preparation.

Collaboration mode

Collaboration mode and complementary services

The service is provided on request or on an annual basis. The frequency, duration, number of participants and conditions of conduct are agreed for each collaboration.

The incident response preparedness assessment includes a tabletop exercise with agreed object and boundaries. The dedicated crisis simulation program described here is defined separately. The development of BIA/BCP/DR continuity plans has its own deliverables and responsibilities.

Security Testing and Breach and Attack Simulation technically verify systems or controls in the authorized field. For the response to a real incident, the activation and intervention conditions are established separately.

Deliverables

At the end of the activity you receive:

  • Exercise scenario — situations defined for the agreed objectives.
  • Facilitation guide — structure for going through the scenario.
  • Post-exercise report — observations and preparedness gaps identified.
  • Action plan — proposed measures for improvement.

The content of the deliverables and the acceptance criteria are established before the exercise.

What recommends us?

Safetech brings together consulting, integration and security operations skills, useful in understanding the relationship between management decisions and technical reality. This perspective supports the construction of crisis scenarios adapted to the context, participants and objectives of the organization.

By facilitating the exercise, we track how teams collaborate, apply procedures and formulate decisions in the proposed situations. We document the observations and turn them into an action plan, so that the results of the simulation can be followed by those responsible for the organization to improve preparation.

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