Tabletop Exercises
Test Your Cyber Readiness
Before It’s Tested for You.

Validate real-world readiness by stress-testing people, process, and decision-making against realistic scenarios based on your organization’s unique environment.

Test your preparedness, improve incident response coordination, and reduce operational risk with tabletop exercises that deliver clear insight, actionable recommendations, and measurable improvement.

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Tabletop Exercises Strengthen Organizational Preparedness

Preparedness is foundational to effective cybersecurity, resilience, and regulatory compliance. We help organizations evaluate their readiness to detect, respond to, and recover from adverse events through scenario-based training and guided role-playing.

By simulating real-world incidents, teams improve:

Situational Awareness

Decision-Making

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Escalation

Cross-Functional Coordination

Our Approach

Each tabletop exercise is structured to simulate realistic cyber events and drive meaningful discussion.

01. Scenario-Based Execution

Participants respond to realistic incidents that reflect common threats, business impact, and operational constraints.

02. Guided Discussion

A CMD+CTRL facilitator leads the session to ensure productive dialogue, clear accountability, and alignment across roles.

03. Actionable Outcomes

Every tabletop exercise concludes with clear findings and prioritized recommendations to improve readiness and response.

What You Achieve

CMD+CTRL Tabletop Exercises are designed to deliver practical, business-relevant outcomes:

Validate incident response and escalation readiness

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Test playbooks against real-world scenarios to ensure your team knows when to escalate issues, who to contact, and how to execute response procedures effectively under pressure.

Improve coordination across security, engineering, IT, legal, and leadership

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Bring diverse teams together to break down operational silos. Facilitate critical communication pathways between technical responders and executive decision-makers to ensure a unified business response.

Identify gaps in people, process, and decision-making

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Uncover hidden weaknesses in your current workflows. Whether it’s a missing contact in a call tree, access issues during an emergency, or an ambiguous approval process, finding these gaps now prevents failure during a real crisis.

Strengthen alignment to NIST-based frameworks and regulatory expectations

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Ensure your incident response capabilities meet industry standards, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), and comply with evolving regulatory requirements, including SEC disclosure rules, HIPAA, and GDPR.

Build organizational confidence before a real incident occurs

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Experience is the best teacher. Give your team the muscle memory and psychological confidence they need to handle high-stress cyber events calmly, professionally, and effectively.

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The Benefits of a Tabletop Exercise

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Realistic & Relevant

Scenarios tailored to your specific threats, applications, and infrastructure relevant to modern environments.

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Cross-Functional Alignment

Encourages a unified response across technical and business functions, reinforcing communication and responsibility.

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Actionable Insight

Gain clear visibility into readiness gaps and concrete guidance for improving controls, processes, and training.

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Scalable & Repeatable

Can be tailored and repeated to support ongoing maturity, new risks, or evolving regulatory requirements.

Example Scenarios

CMD+CTRL Tabletop Exercises support a wide range of incident types commonly addressed in regulatory guidance and risk assessments.
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    DDoS Availability Disruption
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    Exploit of Zero-Day Vulnerability
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    3rd-Party Cloud/SaaS Provider Compromise
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    Open-Source Vulnerability Disclosure
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    Ransomware Impacting Customer (HR/Financial Data)
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    Accidental Sensitive/Regulated Data Exposure
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    Insider Risk (Employee/Contractor Access)
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    Exposed Services or Misconfiguration in Production

Standards and Regulatory Alignment

Tabletop Exercises support alignment with widely adopted frameworks and regulatory drivers.

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    NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
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    NIST SP 800-61 (Incident Response)
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    Regulatory Incident Readiness Expectations
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    Customer and Auditor Readiness Requirements

Who It’s For

Tabletop Exercises are designed for organizations seeking to mature their security and incident response programs.

Security & AppSec Teams

Engineering, DevOps, IT Ops
Incident Response & SOC
Legal, Compliance, Privacy
Executive Stakeholders

Build Confidence Before an Incident

Tabletop Exercises provide a safe, controlled environment to test assumptions and validate response plans, and strengthen readiness. Contact CMD+CTRL to design a Tabletop Exercise aligned to your most critical risks.