Designing Effective Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises

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.

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