An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When conducting cybersecurity and other emergency management tabletop exercises, how far should you push your teams into uncomfortable situations? While goals of these exercises generally focus on ...

One of the most frequently quoted numbers in cybersecurity is $4.35m – the average cost of a data breach, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022. Another less-known statistic from the ...

A cybersecurity tabletop exercise is a structured simulation where key stakeholders walk through a realistic cyber incident and make decisions as events unfold.

It's the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running through incident processes, and ...

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) workforce is short 30,000 cyber and information technology (IT) personnel. And the rest of the department’s workforce needs to be managed adroitly for the ...