Designing Effective Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
30mIntermediate2024-07-26
Authors

Mani Keerthi Nagothu
Course details
Learning how to build tabletop exercises will help you to understand the gaps within your organization’s processes, technology, and people in responding to a cyber attack. With the advent of new cyber regulations and AI-based attacks, it has become more crucial than ever for security teams to evaluate their current preparedness. Instructor Mani Keerthi Nagothu starts off with a look at the basics of tabletop exercises, then shows you how to plan and develop your exercise. Next, Mani explains the steps to execute and then evaluate your tabletop exercise, before showing you how improvement and corrective actions you can take to maximize the benefits of your tabletop exercises.
Skills covered
Governance, Risk, and ComplianceIncident ResponseCybersecurityOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Importance of tabletop exercises
1. Overview of Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises
- 02 - What is a tabletop exercise (TTX)
- 03 - TTX needs and phases
2. Designing and Developing Tabletop Exercises
- 04 - Planning your tabletop exercise
- 05 - Identify your scope
- 06 - Assembling the tabletop exercise team
- 07 - Identify participants
- 08 - Determine the scenario
3. Executing and Evaluating Tabletop Exercises
- 09 - Conducting the tabletop exercise - Part 1
- 10 - Conducting the tabletop exercise - Part 2
- 11 - Debriefing after the tabletop exercise
4. Improvement and Corrective Actions of Tabletop Exercises
- 12 - Detailed evaluation and improvement plan
5. Conclusion
- 13 - Next steps
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