Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercises - From Planning to Execution

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.

Product details

• Authors: John Hollenberger, Robert Lelewski
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2024
• EAN: 9781718503823
• ISBN: 978-1-71850-382-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 179 mm x 236 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; COMPUTERS / Software Development & Engineering / General, COMPUTERS / Security / General, COMPUTERS / Programming / General, Computer security, Computer programming / software engineering, Computer Programming / Software Development