When a serious incident hits, the quality of your decisions in the first hours matters most. Who declares an incident? Who talks to customers, regulators and the press? Do you pay, isolate, shut down? A tabletop exercise lets your team practice those decisions before they are real. PeakCyber’s facilitated tabletop exercises turn your incident response plan from a document into a tested capability.
What is a tabletop exercise?
A tabletop exercise is a discussion-based simulation. Participants walk through a realistic incident scenario step by step, guided by an experienced facilitator, and explain what they would do at each stage. No systems are touched and no technical risk is created, yet the exercise exposes gaps in plans, roles, tools and communication.
Scenarios we can run
- Ransomware and extortion
- Data breach and customer data exposure
- Business email compromise and fraud
- Insider threat
- Third-party or supply chain compromise
- Cloud account takeover
- Critical system outage or destructive attack
- Scenarios tailored to your industry and your own systems
Who should participate
- Executive and management track: decision making, legal, regulatory, communications and business continuity
- Technical track: detection, containment, forensics and recovery
- Combined sessions: coordination between technical teams and leadership
How it works
- Preparation: review your plans, structure and objectives; design a scenario that fits your risks
- Facilitated session: scenario injects unfold over a few hours, and participants discuss and decide
- Observation: our team captures decisions, delays, assumptions and gaps
- After-action report: findings and prioritized improvements
What you receive
- Tailored scenario and facilitation
- After-action report with strengths, gaps and recommendations
- Suggestions for improving your incident response plan, roles, communication templates and escalation paths
- Optional follow-up exercise to measure improvement
Frequently asked questions
Practice the worst day before it happens
Contact us to plan a tabletop exercise for your team.
