HRM-INT-13Term
Tabletop exercise
A facilitated walk-through of an incident scenario with the people who would respond, used to test decisions and hand-offs without touching systems.
Example
The CISO runs a ransomware tabletop with legal, communications and the help desk and records the decisions that stalled.
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The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.