Anatomy of an Effective Tabletop Exercise
Information Week
JULY 16, 2024
Tabletops can boost cyber resilience, but what does it take to execute an effective exercise?
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Information Week
JULY 16, 2024
Tabletops can boost cyber resilience, but what does it take to execute an effective exercise?
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 10, 2025
On the heels of the CrowdStrike outage, the partners conducted tabletop exercises to demonstrate the banks ability to recover quickly in the event of a similar cybersecurity incident or potentially something much worse.
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Forrester IT
JULY 20, 2022
Threat hunting is a term frequently misused by cybersecurity pros, vendors, and service providers. We researched threat hunting to determine what it really is, what benefits it brings, and to overcome the misuse and abuse of the term. The resulting report, Threat Hunting 101, published recently.
Forrester IT
JULY 8, 2022
How can CX leaders gain funding? Develop executive empathy: Determine stakeholder priorities, connect CX to these existing priorities, and communicate the value of CX.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 6, 2025
Conscious breathing exercises and micro-breaks, mindfulness-based interventions and guided meditations are considered helpful in strengthening self-regulation and dealing withchanges or stress more calmly. The results from the face-to-face training are reinforced when mindfulness exercises are continued via an app.
Association of Information Technology Professional
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Find out more about how tabletop exercises can help your organization better prepare for a multitude of risk scenarios and threats. There are many benefits to regularly testing your incident response plan.
Information Week
MAY 3, 2024
At what point does continuous, iterative development for Agile applications turn into a maintenance exercise?
Information Week
JULY 29, 2024
Selecting and transitioning to the right outsourcing partner presents an exercise in due diligence for CIOs: How can you ensure a successful partnership launch?
Forrester IT
MARCH 30, 2020
Value for customer is a customer’s perception of what they get versus what they give up when doing business with a firm. Four dimensions make up the overall value a customer perceives: 1) functional, 2) experiential, 3) symbolic, and 4) economic. But which combination is the right one? Find Your Organization’s Value Sweet Spot!
Information Week
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Cyber drills and exercises aren’t optional -- they’re essential. Traditional cyber training provides a false sense of security for organizations, as success is determined by test completion rather than capability.
Forrester IT
JUNE 18, 2020
Infections are in the rise in more than 20 US states, and at least a dozen have experienced new record rates of infections. And the US isn’t alone; China and Brazil are experiencing a rise, too. Officials say the chance of a second wave is high. Over the last few months, we’ve been providing advice […].
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
In a RSA 2020 simulation, the Red Team compromised email accounts, created deepfake videos and spread disinformation on Election Day in Adversaria.
Forrester IT
MARCH 18, 2020
A recent debate on Twitter surrounding the ethics of organizations using COVID-19 as a theme for phishing exercises sparked our interest, since it relates to our coverages areas and prior work experience. In one of Brian’s prior jobs, he conducted the phishing exercises for the employees of one of the larger security companies.
CTOvision
AUGUST 13, 2020
According to research by Immersive Labs of 402 organizations, nearly 40% are not fully confident in their teams training to handle a data breach if one occurred, and 65% of […].
CIO Business Intelligence
NOVEMBER 27, 2024
Enhancing productivity with digitization Digital transformation is integral to Wagh Bakri, with the organization undertaking a business process reengineering exercise to understand where they could usher in digitization within the processes to enhance productivity.
Forrester IT
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
Sales enablement practitioners must deconstruct role-playing exercises to enable reps to get into top-selling form. Like in golf, there are so many motions to consider in any customer interaction.
Network World
MARCH 13, 2025
Its not just a theoretical exercise. And theres no shortage of applications for new discovery of magnetic materials, says Alan Baratz, CEO at D-Wave Quantum, a company that makes annealing-style quantum computers. Thats why todays announcement that they were able to simulate a complex magnetic material with a quantum computer is so important.
Tech Republic Security
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
The security company found that 85% of workers spend up to five hours a week watching YouTube, listening to podcasts, or exercising during work hours.
Forrester IT
JULY 22, 2019
The Value Of Brand Valuing a brand can be a deeply divisive exercise. Questioning it, or attempting to validate it, can well be an exercise in futility and mathematical mumbo jumbo. To most marketers, there is an axiomatic simplicity to brand value.
Network World
MARCH 25, 2025
ControlMonkey One-click restoration is the goal With the complexity of cloud configurations, especially in distributed multi-cloud environments with complicated network topologies, restoration of service is often a non-trivial exercise for disaster recovery. Twizer claims that ControlMonkey can do it in one-click.
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 14, 2025
Organizations could use agentic AI to try to defeat themselves, much like a red team exercise. One of the best is a penetration test that checks for ways someone could access a network. The technology could be used as a monitoring tool that watches multiple parameters for anything abnormal.
Forrester IT
MAY 16, 2019
Rather than undertake a full organizational design exercise, firms are adopting tactical change, creating agile delivery […]. Many firms have used Forrester’s principles of customer obsession to guide their business and IT transformation journey, striving to be customer-led, insights-driven, fast, and connected.
Network World
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
There's a new Linux security tool you should be aware of — Cmd (pronounced "see em dee") dramatically modifies the kind of control that can be exercised over Linux users.
Forrester IT
JANUARY 15, 2019
Every New Year, I find myself making lofty goals: eat better, exercise more, spend less time on social media. By mid-February, those goals are a distant blip in my rearview mirror; the reality of life gets into the way and I just fail at tracking progress. But this year is different (I swear). I created […]
Association of Information Technology Professional
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
Developing an incident response plan and running a war gaming exercise gives employees the tools they need to respond quickly, mitigate the situation and return to business as usual. Everyone should be prepared for a cyberattack.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 20, 2025
Youll know AGI is here when the exercise of creating tasks that are easy for regular humans but hard for AI becomes simply impossible. This demonstrates the continued possibility of creating challenging, unsaturated benchmarks without having to rely on expert domain knowledge.
Forrester IT
AUGUST 3, 2021
Needless to say the exercise is becoming more and more difficult and anything beyond 24 to 60 months looks very futuristic. As analysts, part of our jobs is to try to decipher the broader trends impacting businesses. That’s why I enjoy reading prospective books and especially publications of the National Intelligence Council.
Forrester IT
JANUARY 31, 2020
When starting a project like the Future of the CISO – it’s a daunting exercise. While we don’t always share the background inspiration for our research, this time it’s quite important and will shed some light on how we arrived here. When we started planning this research in 2018 and working on it in 2019, […].
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 22, 2024
IT evangelism best practices Leading digital projects can quickly become a fragile exercise if CIOs fail to remain actively engaged. It likely would have failed, had it not been for the CIO’s own self-corrective actions, which led to him reinserting himself into the project and re-energizing his staff.
Forrester IT
MARCH 1, 2021
This is an exercise we do every year to hold us — the prediction-makers — accountable to our predictions. This week, we published scores for our 2020 cloud predictions. We assess if our predictions came to pass and explicitly call out if we were vague, too aggressive, or just simply wrong. Although we pride ourselves […].
Forrester IT
JULY 12, 2021
Once you’ve got Kubernetes in production, those predictable business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) exercises get a lot more interesting — and not necessarily in a good way. That’s why I’m focusing on the challenges of Kubernetes disaster recovery and business continuity in my recently published research.
TechSpot
JANUARY 9, 2025
As millions of Americans embark on their New Year's resolutions to exercise more, a scientific consortium led by Stanford is shedding light on the intricate ways physical activity benefits our health. Read Entire Article
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 10, 2024
In this way, developing an enterprise AI strategy has become a lot more like conducting an orchestra of highly specialized parts than a hunt for the ultimate killer app or quest for the perfect do-it-all model.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Risk assessment is more than a box-checking exercise. The right framework is an essential part of proactive risk management designed to protect against data breaches or prevent non-compliance with regulations. CSO recently explored six popular risk assessment frameworks, including COBIT, NIST Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 27001.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 28, 2025
Foundry / CIO.com To me, this suggests that many organizations still see AI as a cost-cutting exercise, rather than a powerful tool that can be used to redefine and improve how work is done, adds Hamilton, also CEO of Find Your Flex Group, a workforce transformation consultant.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Improving overall security posture: The insights gained from red team exercises can be used to enhance security policies, procedures, and technologies. Regular red team exercises help organizations stay ahead of emerging threats by continually testing and improving their security posture.
IT Toolbox
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Cybersecurity is not just a tick-in-the-box exercise, nor simply a product to sell. The post Moving Cybersecurity Forward: Takeaways from International Cyber Expo 2022 appeared first on Spiceworks.
IT Toolbox
AUGUST 26, 2024
The University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) ran a fake email warning about a staff member infected with the Ebola virus as a phishing training exercise, creating a backlash. Learn more about the incident and best practices for phishing tests.
IT Toolbox
OCTOBER 19, 2022
In July, Microsoft indicated that it could lay off less than 1% of its workforce as part of a structural adjustment exercise. The post Microsoft Lets Go of 1,000 Employees In Latest Round of “Structural Adjustments” appeared first on Spiceworks.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 13, 2025
OCM is a specialized skill, but CIOs can start with some practical strategies, such as publishing their technology roadmap, hosting interactive Q&A sessions to encourage dialogue, training programs that include hands-on exercises, and building a feedback mechanism that allows employees to voice their concerns.
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Exercises identify shortcomings that can be addressed ahead of a real incident. Regardless of safeguards, regular disaster recovery exercisesconducted twice yearlyshould define roles, responsibilities, and communication protocols to prepare teams for potential crises. Organizations must move beyond a reactive mindset.
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 21, 2024
To effectively leverage cyber ranges for building an AI-ready cybersecurity team, consider implementing the following strategies: Regular Tabletop Exercise : Incorporate regular sessions within the cyber range into the team’s training schedule. This ensures consistent practice and skill refinement in handling AI-driven security scenarios.
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 26, 2023
This objective can be accomplished by inviting broader segments of the corporate community to security tabletop exercises. These exercises help organizations hone their resilience strategies while providing a constructive basis for discussing priorities and defining what their minimal viable business (MVB) looks like.
GeekWire
MARCH 5, 2025
But I was curious to see if any of their equipment might alter the effort I put into exercising and being healthy. My current exercise routine consists of a daily stationary bike ride in the morning and a 5-mile walk in the evening, with some snowboarding thrown in on the weekends.
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