Tabletop Exercises

Practice your response — before it’s real.

Would your team know what to do during a breach? Tabletop Exercises let you find out — in a no-risk environment. These structured simulations walk through a fictional but realistic scenario with injects and decision points, helping participants practise detection, escalation, communication, and recovery. We tailor each session to your infrastructure, people, and industry. See our testimonials.

Tabletop Exercises

Service Overview

Tabletop Exercises provide a safe, structured way to test your incident response plans, escalation paths, and team coordination. Sessions can involve technical staff, business leaders, or both — and they generate valuable insights about preparedness and areas for improvement.

Business Benefit

  • Validate your IR process and identify hidden gaps
  • Test communication flows between IT, security, and leadership
  • Build muscle memory in a non-threatening setting
  • Meet compliance or audit requirements
  • Engage executives and improve cross-team coordination

What's included

  • One live or virtual tabletop session (typically 1.5–2 hours)
  • Custom scenario based on your infrastructure or threat profile
  • Injects and guided discussion led by experienced facilitator
  • Pre-exercise briefing and post-exercise report
  • Actionable recommendations for improvement

Our Engagement Process

  1. Planning session to define objectives and participants
  2. Custom scenario development (or use of common templates)
  3. Facilitated live session with real-time decision prompts
  4. Group debrief immediately after
  5. Formal report delivered within 5 business days

What we do

Scenario Design

We work with you to choose or tailor a scenario relevant to your risk profile and industry.

Live Facilitation

Our consultants lead the session, guiding participants through decisions, challenges, and discussion.

Reporting & Recommendations

After the exercise, we deliver a summary report highlighting strengths, weaknesses, and improvement actions.

Pricing & Timeline

Price: From £1,800 per session (virtual or UK on-site). Discounts available for multi-session programs.

Estimated Timeline: Typically scheduled 2–3 weeks in advance. Report delivered within 5 business days after the session.