Your enterprise has just been breached -- do you already know what you are going to do? Or will you flex your incident response muscles for the very first time during a real-life crisis? Tabletop ...

A tabletop exercise (TTX) is a disaster preparedness activity that takes participants through a simulated disaster scenario. The abbreviation "TTX" comes from the federal government and is typically ...

Organizations that are regularly defending against cyberattacks can find it useful to occasionally take a step back and test their defense and response capabilities. One way to do this is through ...

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 ...

Most organizations have an incident response plan, a business continuity plan or a policy document that explains what should ...

As cyber threats have evolved and expanded, cybersecurity has emerged as a threat to organizations across sectors, and there is more urgency than ever for companies to remain vigilant and prepared.

When your IT systems go down, every second counts — and the costs can be staggering. Research shows that more than half of IT and data centre outages cost over $100,000, and 16% exceed $1 million. In ...

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 ...

Joel Keller spent more than a decade in IT before becoming a full-time journalist. He has written for The New York Times, Parade and others. Organizations that want to understand where they might have ...

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 ...

Testing security controls and tools against a multitude of scenarios is critical to truly understand an organization's state of readiness should an attack occur. Two common methods to do this are ...