Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises

The complete start-to-finish guide for planning and delivering successful cybersecurity tabletop exercises. One of the most effective ways an organization can prepare for cybersecurity incidents and test out their response processes are “tabletop exercises,” commonly used to discuss various actions in a hypothetical emergency. Veteran security consultants Robert Lelewski and John Hollenberger have run hundreds of such exercises, and they’ve now boiled down their vast experience planning these mission-critical events into the You’ll see how to design a scenario that properly evaluates your team’s existing controls, pinpoints your weaknesses, and encourages collaboration. You’ll also examine the logistics of planning the event itself, develop effective facilitation skills, and explore ways of making process changes based on the tabletop’s outcomes. Along the way, you’ll learn: This essential soup-to-nuts resource also includes example scenarios geared at varying audiences at different levels -- including infosec analysts, tech team members, non-technical employees, and executives -- that you can easily adapt for your own organization depending on the goals of your tabletop.

Auteur
Robert Lelewski has more than 20 years of experience in IT, cybersecurity, incident response, and risk management. He is the VP of cybersecurity strategy at Zurich Insurance’s Global Ventures and holds numerous industry certifications, including CISA, CISM, CRISC, CIPM, and CDPSE.

John Hollenberger is a seasoned cybersecurity consultant with over 16 years of experience in web and host-based vulnerability assessments, incident response, digital forensics, and data loss prevention. He is a senior security consultant of proactive services at Fortinet, with certifications that include CISSP, GCIH, GWAPT, and Security+.

Contenu
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: The Tabletop Exercise Process
Chapter 1: Why Perform Tabletop Exercises?
Chapter 2: Planning the Tabletop Exercise
Chapter 3: The Development Process: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
Chapter 4: Facilitating a Successful Exercise
Chapter 5: Acting On What You’ve Learned: Evaluation and Next Steps

Part II: Example Scenarios
Chapter 6: Engaging a Technical Audience
Chapter 7: Engaging an Executive Audience
Chapter 8: Engaging the Business

Appendix: Reporting Templates
Index