Cyber Crisis Exercise
An immersive and evolving cyber attack exercise to test your plans and strategic and tactical responses.
Book NowWhat is a Cyber Crisis Exercise?
An immersive and evolving table top exercise to test your strategic and tactical response to an incident. It helps prepare you for an attack and allows you to test how key staff make and communicate vital decisions in a developing situation.
All of our cyber crisis exercises are developed in a collaborative way to ensure they are unique to each client and tailored to your environment, risk profile and business priorities.
The Process
Scoping
We assess your current plans and understand your assets and vulnerabilities.
Exercise
We plan & carry out the Cyber Crisis Exercise with your incident response team and crucial staff. We deliver a hot debrief after the exercise.
Reporting
You will receive a full written report with findings from the exercise and suggestions for improving your plans.
Review
A full review of amended incident response / business continuity plans can be conducted. Retesting can be done when required.
Benefits of a Tabletop Exercise
Improve skills of your response teams
Exercises improve teamwork, confidence and make your members more aware of their individual roles and responsibilities in a “realistic” crisis.
Test existing incident response plans
Improve and update your plans and playbooks by testing how they perform in a realistic bespoke scenario based around your departments and infrastructure.
Comply with regulatory and auditory demands
Demonstrate alignment with compliance requirements and show preparedness to regulatory bodies, with documented exercises and lessons learned.
Improve response times
Companies that run exercises can respond faster and more effectively because skillsets required in a crisis have been rehearsed in a supportive environment.
Build cyber risk awareness
Exercises allow you to raise awareness of cyber threats at all levels of your organisation and show your management’s commitment to cyber resilience.
Get executive buy-in
Increased awareness of cyber issues builds momentum for improving incident response plans and increasing investment in resilience capabilities.
What Our Clients Are Saying
“Realistic scenario”
We were very impressed with how Red Goat engaged with our InfoSec department, drafting up a realistic scenario that included a few twist and turns to keep the response team on their toes.
Everyone engaged well with the exercise and whilst great fun, some very valuable lessons were learned.
Geoff Forsyth CISO
PCI Pal
“Extremely Helpful”
“Red Goat Cyber Security were extremely helpful and professional. Their knowledge of cyber security and table top exercising was excellent and provided a real stimulus in preparing for a potential cyber-attack. We would highly recommend them to other maritime and logistic companies”
David Brown OBE, Chief Executive
Bristol Port Company
“Highly Recommend”
“I was delighted with how Red Goat Cyber Security delivered the cyber security table top exercise. We had a wide ranging participation group and they were able to guide and advise as well as ensuring engagement throughout the exercise. It provoked a lot of thought and group discussion. We have learnt valuable lessons to further improve our plans, processes and check lists and would highly recommend them to other organisations”
Andrew Cowling, Director of Informatics at
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Key Elements Included in the Exercise
- Information gathering and document review
- Pre- exercise scenario run-through
- Bespoke intelligence driven scenario
- Experienced exercise facilitators
- Post exercise feedback and information gathering
- After Action Report with recommendations
After Action Report: Ready for Action
Mapping Your Next Steps
You gain a clear record of actions taken to mitigate cyber threats. Ready for sharing to relevant stakeholders, and helping you establish a baseline for cyber-attack readiness.
Giving Evidence Based Prioritisation
These recommendations form the foundation for an action plans to improve your cybersecurity posture. These are divided into primary and secondary tiers, for immediate and long-term resolutions.
Supporting Decision Making
You collect insights into your organisation’s risk readiness and response capabilities. This helps to inform your decision-making for future cybersecurity strategies and investments.
Why Businesses Choose Red Goat Cyber Security
We have extensive experience of running exercises within a wide range of often regulated industries.
These include financial services, law, cloud computing, SaaS, and NGOs. This broad experience, combined with our expertise and knowledge, ensures you get the most out of your cyber tabletop exercise.
We can provide support for development, train staff to take part in cyber exercises and produce an independent report with recommendations.
What is Included?
Fully Managed Exercise
We work with you to plan and deliver a high quality, bespoke cyber attack exercise including a full run-through prior to the exercise.
Post-Exercise Hot Debrief
We deliver a hot debrief immediately after the table top exercise and collect feedback from participants for inclusion in the report.
Report and Cold Debrief
We deliver a full report and executive summary on the outcomes of the exercise. This includes lessons learned and recommendations for improving your plan.
Case Studies
Travelex
“We are a global foreign exchange business and were looking for an external firm to design and deliver a cyber crisis simulation to our executives.
After speaking to several providers who didn’t fill us with confidence, Red Goat was recommended by an industry contact and from the first conversation and throughout the engagement, we were very impressed. Lisa and team demonstrated deep insight on cyber incidents and impact, and we worked together to transfer understanding of our business in order to design a highly effective set of simulation injects. Our executives were fully engaged through the exercise and we gained tremendous value in exploring potential issues and challenges which has driven improvements to our security posture and resiliency.
It was a pleasure working with Red Goat and we would recommend them to others.”
James Baker, Senior Cyber Services Manager
Travelex (2023)
Prepare Your Team for Cyber Threats
What You’ll Find in the Flyer:
- Overview of the Exercise: Detailed description of the exercise structure and objectives.
- Benefits: Key benefits your team will gain running a cyber exercise.
- Whats included: The components of a cyber crisis exercise from Red Goat.
- 5 Steps to resilience: An overview of the delivery process from start to finish.
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