Design a Tabletop Exercise to Support Your Security Operation – Phase 2: Design

Author(s): TJ Minichillo

To properly design a tabletop exercise, organizations must review their existing threat landscape and incident history in order to identity topics, scope, objectives.

Activities that will take place during this phase include:

  • Reviewing the current threat landscape and organizational incident history.
  • Determining and identifying topics and exercise scenarios.
  • Assessing people, process, and technology.
  • Coordinating exercise logistics.