Rehearse Your Incident Response Before a Real Attack
Facilitated tabletop exercises simulating real-world cyber incidents to test your team's decision-making, communication, and incident response capabilities under pressure.
Why Tabletop Exercise Matters Now
The threat landscape is evolving rapidly. These are the risks your organization faces without proper tabletop exercise assessment.
Slow Incident Response Times
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Communication Breakdown During Crisis
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Decision Paralysis Under Pressure
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
Unclear Roles and Responsibilities
A critical attack vector that organizations must address proactively. Our assessment identifies and validates exposure to this specific threat.
What We Assess
Comprehensive coverage across all critical areas of tabletop exercise.
Deep-Dive Coverage — Every Nuance Addressed
Tabletop Exercise isn't one-size-fits-all. Different contexts demand different assessment approaches. We go beyond generic checklists to address the specific attack surfaces and risks of each domain.
Ransomware & Double-Extortion Decision Drills
A credible tabletop must force executives and responders through the hardest decisions before a real crisis does. This domain pressures containment, restoration, and payment governance under realistic uncertainty.
- ▸ Scenario injects for domain controller compromise, backup encryption, and spread into virtualization or hypervisor management planes
- ▸ Decision points around negotiator engagement, insurer notification, outside counsel involvement, and sanctions screening before any payment discussion
- ▸ Validation of how the team distinguishes genuine exfiltration evidence from bluff-based extortion claims
- ▸ Recovery prioritization under degraded identity services where production systems may be available but authentication is not
- ▸ Time-boxed escalation choices that test whether business leaders understand the operational impact of delayed containment
Identity, SaaS & Cloud Crisis Scenarios
Many severe incidents now begin in the identity or SaaS layer rather than on a workstation. This domain exercises response to tenant-wide trust and access failures.
- ▸ Entra ID or Okta administrator compromise scenarios involving mass session revocation, app disablement, and break-glass account activation
- ▸ Malicious enterprise application consent and OAuth abuse affecting mailbox, file, and directory access across the tenant
- ▸ Microsoft 365 mailbox takeover scenarios with legal hold, message trace, and executive communication integrity decisions
- ▸ Cloud control-plane compromise injects involving access key exposure, role chaining, and emergency account isolation
- ▸ SaaS outage versus intrusion differentiation where the team must act despite incomplete vendor visibility and delayed updates
Executive Communications, Legal & Regulatory Response
The technical response often fails because crisis communications and legal obligations are improvised. This domain validates whether the organization can communicate with discipline under pressure.
- ▸ Notification threshold exercises for GDPR, NIS2, sector-specific rules, contractual obligations, and board escalation triggers
- ▸ Board briefing rehearsals using decision logs, confirmed facts, working assumptions, and unresolved investigative questions
- ▸ Customer, partner, media, and employee statement sequencing that prevents over-disclosure while preserving trust
- ▸ Law-enforcement and CERT engagement criteria tied to jurisdiction, threat actor profile, and operational need
- ▸ Privilege preservation workflows with outside counsel, breach coach coordination, and documentation segregation
Technical Coordination & Evidence Handling
Strong tabletop programs validate the mechanics of command and control, not just the narrative. This domain checks role clarity, forensics discipline, and war-room execution.
- ▸ Incident commander, deputy, communications lead, legal lead, and technical SME RACI validation against the current IR plan
- ▸ Chain-of-custody steps for memory capture, log export, endpoint triage, cloud snapshots, and volatile evidence preservation
- ▸ Secure war-room tooling and backup communications plans when corporate chat, email, or SSO are unavailable
- ▸ Scenario injects mapped to ATT&CK progression so the team must correlate attacker phases to concrete response actions
- ▸ After-action conversion of findings into playbook changes, control owners, due dates, and evidence of closure
Proven Tabletop Exercise Methodology
A systematic, repeatable methodology refined over 4,800+ security assessments across 24+ countries.
Discovery & Scoping
Understand your environment, define scope, identify critical assets and testing boundaries.
Threat Intelligence
Gather intelligence on known threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors specific to your domain.
Assessment Execution
Conduct thorough testing combining automated tools with expert manual analysis.
Analysis & Correlation
Correlate findings, assess business impact, eliminate false positives, and prioritize risks.
Reporting & Remediation
Deliver detailed reports with executive summary, technical findings, and actionable remediation guidance.
Verification & Support
Re-test after remediation, verify fixes, and provide ongoing advisory support.
Why Choose Us for Tabletop Exercise
India's Only CREST-Approved
International gold standard in security testing - ensuring international quality standards.
Government Empanelled
Government of India authorized security auditor (2025-2027) for regulated entities.
Real-Time Project Portal
Track assessment progress, view findings, and collaborate with our team through our proprietary LURA platform. Security Simplified.
Standards & Frameworks We Align With
Rehearse Your Response Before a Real Attack
Work with our facilitators to design a tabletop scenario that stress-tests your incident response plan against real-world threats.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our tabletop exercise programs.
What is a tabletop exercise?
A tabletop exercise is a facilitated discussion-based exercise where key stakeholders walk through a simulated cyber incident scenario, testing their decision-making, communication, and response procedures without impacting actual systems.
Who should participate?
Ideally, representatives from executive leadership, IT/security, legal, communications/PR, HR, operations, and any third-party incident response partners.
How long does a tabletop exercise take?
Typical exercises run 2-4 hours. We also offer half-day and full-day exercises for complex scenarios involving multiple phases and stakeholders.
How often should we conduct tabletop exercises?
We recommend quarterly exercises with varying scenarios - ransomware, data breach, insider threat, supply chain compromise - to build muscle memory across different incident types.
Can you customize scenarios for our industry?
Yes, every scenario is customized for your industry, threat landscape, regulatory requirements, and organizational structure. We use real-world incident data relevant to your sector.
Still have questions?
Our exercise facilitators are ready to design a scenario tailored to your industry, threat profile, and response maturity level.
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