“Table Top Exercises” (TTX) has become part of my almost daily vocabulary given how hot the demand for them has become. From the companies and individuals I spoke with, there were a variety of reasons they were looking for a TTX, but it ultimately boiled down to the following three buckets:
1. The Information Security organization had no Incident Response (IR) capability at all and wanted to demonstrate to leadership the perils of what would happen.
2. The CISO wanted to ensure their Incident Response Team (IRT) had all their bases covered during an incident.
3. A savvy and mature IRT wanted to include outside organizations such as Legal, Human Resources, Public Relations, Office of the CIO, Office of the CEO, etc… so that everyone had gone through a drill at least once.
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http://seanmason.com/2015/04/20/table-top-exercises-ttx/