Business Continuity Tabletops
Guided exercises that test how your business sustains its essential functions and revenue through an extended disruption, whatever caused it
Not every disruption is a cyber attack
Our Business Continuity Tabletop service rehearses how your business keeps its essential functions and revenue running through an extended disruption. A storm, a fire, a failed supplier, a long outage, a building nobody can get into, a cyber incident: the cause varies, and the problem of carrying on for days or weeks does not. Our experts lead a realistic scenario in a controlled, safe environment, then update your continuity plans with what it exposed.
Where an Incident Response Tabletop rehearses the security incident itself, this rehearses the days and weeks after any kind of event: which functions have to keep running, and what the business can do without for a while. We plan the scenario with you beforehand so it matches how your business actually works, and your team walks through it with nothing at stake.
Benefits
- Resilience: essential functions and revenue sustained, with less downtime and financial loss
- Peace of mind: continuity plans tested against realistic scenarios first
- Improved regulatory, contractual, and legal compliance
Features
Our experts lead the room through interactive, moderated simulations of the disruptions most likely to reach your business.
- Coordinated scenario planning and preparation
- Expert-led tabletop scenarios
- Live, onsite, interactive simulations of realistic disruptions
- Post-tabletop observations and business continuity plan updates
Is this only about cyber attacks?
No. Business continuity covers anything that stops your business operating normally: a natural disaster, a fire or flood, an extended power or network outage, a supplier who cannot deliver, a building nobody can get into, or the loss of people you depend on. A cyber incident is one cause among many. What the exercise rehearses is keeping your essential functions and your revenue running, whatever the cause turned out to be.
How is this different from an Incident Response Tabletop?
An Incident Response Tabletop rehearses the incident itself: what happened, who gets told, how it is contained, and what record you are left with. A Business Continuity Tabletop rehearses the weeks that follow, and it is not limited to security. Which functions have to keep running, at what reduced level, for how long before it costs you customers or revenue. Businesses that run both find the gaps sit in different places.
What do we have at the end?
Observations from the exercise and updated business continuity plans. Plans written in advance tend to assume everyone is available and everything is reachable, and a tabletop is where that assumption meets a scenario built around how your business actually runs. What surfaces goes back into the plans while nothing is at stake.
Tell us about your business.
A half-hour conversation about what you're being asked for and where you actually stand. If we can help, you'll have a proposal usually within a day.
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