White Paper

Planning an Effective Incident Response Tabletop Exercise


Planning prevents poor performance

What You Will Learn:

  • The benefit of goal setting
  • Who to involve
  • The benefit of failure and open dialogue
  • The importance of schedule setting
  • What a good scenario looks like
  • The benefit of good reporting and follow-through
  • How an objective view can remove bias

This document looks into the process which Secureworks™ Incident Response team utilizes when working with our clients to plan and facilitate a tabletop exercise, and imperatives that can be gleaned from that to ensure a successful exercise, regardless of whether you are managing it internally or having a third party facilitate.