Tabletop Exercise

Immerse in Reality

Enhance your overall cyber response preparedness and improve collective decision- making during Incidents.

NSP's Tabletop Exercise

A discussion-based approach tailored to your unique environment and operational needs. Taking participants through the process of dealing with a simulated incident scenario and providing hands-on training for participants that can then highlight flaws in incident response planning. Our expert team facilitates this discussion with your response team, outlining required actions, responsibilities, notifications, and coordination strategies. 

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Challenges Addressed

Preparing for cyber incidents presents challenges, and our Tabletop Exercise is designed to overcome them. Tailored to your specific environment, including existing prevention and detection controls, the exercise scenario is developed to reflect the current threat landscape and threats specific to your high-value assets. 

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Fast, Effective, and Reality-Based

The NSP Tabletop Exercise guides your team through a targeted attack scenario that accurately mimics a real-world experience but takes less time and has no negative repercussions. Realism is crucial for effectiveness, and the exercise includes injects simulating real-world inputs to test your team’s response capabilities dynamically. 

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Benefits of a Tabletop Exercise

Raise Awareness

Demonstrates the potential impact of a cybersecurity attack and highlights inefficiencies in response capabilities.

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Improve Alignment

Increases awareness of departmental roles, fosters understanding of available information during an incident, and reveals how information gathering can be optimised.

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Enhance Efficacy

Prioritise the most significant threats to your organisation and strategically plan the necessary roadmap for safeguarding your organization.

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Test Decision Making

Assesses your organisation’s ability to make key decisions around communications, business operations, external party involvement, and business risk.

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Gain Insights

Identify shortcomings in your existing security program and understand the risks faced within your enterprise.

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Proactive Security Measures

Reduce the impact and likelihood of successful breaches and data exfiltration.Test and secure your organisation against potential threats.

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Recommendations on process improvements based on exercise findings.

What NSP Delivers

  • Summary Report

  • Prioritised Takeaways

  • Educational Materials

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