An incident response tabletop exercise is a discussion-based practice that uses a hypothetical situation to coach a technical or executive audience through the cybersecurity incident response life ...

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 ...

Zeus Kerravala is the founder of and principal analyst at ZK Research. Follow him on Twitter @zkerravala. Partnering with an outside organization on these exercises can offer additional benefits.

On June 13, 2024, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) collaborated with the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) to hold the federal government’s first tabletop exercise ...

In the early 1800s, Prussian officers began rehearsing battles around sand tables. They called it Kriegsspiel, and it worked because it forced them to make high-stakes decisions under pressure. Fast ...

One of the pivotal aspects of cyber preparedness is the active engagement of an organization’s leadership, particularly the board of directors or managers. Board members are entrusted with the ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said that last week's inaugural tabletop with the private sector, coordinated by the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative at the Microsoft facility in ...

In 2017, credit rating agency Equifax suffered a massive data breach, ultimately costing the company over $1.4 billion in legal settlements, regulatory fines, and cybersecurity expenses. That same ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity in higher education presents a unique and evolving challenge. As someone who has spent years in incident response, digital forensics and security engineering, I’ve seen firsthand the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Heather Wishart-Smith is a board director who covers innovation. As cyber threats become more complex, organizations are ...