Your first cyber incident shouldn't be your first test.

A tabletop exercise is a facilitated cyber incident simulation where your team walks through how they would respond to a realistic cyber event. It helps validate plans, identify gaps, and improve coordination before a real incident occurs.

White Tuque delivers two primary types of tabletop exercises, each designed for different audiences and objectives.

Executive Tabletop Exercises focus on strategic decision-making during a cyber incident. Participants typically include executive leadership, legal, communications, HR, privacy, business leaders, and IT. These exercises evaluate crisis management, business continuity, regulatory obligations, executive communications, and organizational decision-making.

Technical Tabletop Exercises are designed for the teams responsible for responding to and recovering from an incident. Participants commonly include IT, security operations, infrastructure, cloud, application, and support teams. These exercises validate technical response procedures, escalation paths, containment activities, recovery processes, and coordination between operational teams.

Many organizations choose to conduct both technical and executive exercises to validate their entire incident response capability from operational response through executive crisis management.

Our tabletop exercises are never limited to a predefined set of scenarios. Every exercise is designed around your organization's industry, technology environment, business priorities, and the outcomes you want to achieve.

Examples of scenarios we commonly deliver include:

• Ransomware attacks
• Business Email Compromise (BEC)
• Third-party or supply chain compromise
• Cloud security incidents
• Data breaches involving sensitive or regulated information
• Insider threats or malicious employee activity
• Credential theft and account compromise
• AI-related security incidents
• Denial-of-Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks
• Operational Technology (OT) and cyber-physical incidents
• Business continuity and disaster recovery events
• Executive crisis management scenarios
• Fully custom scenarios built specifically for your organization, including simulations based on your technology stack, critical business processes, threat landscape, recent industry incidents, or emerging risks.

Whether you're looking to validate a specific incident response capability or challenge your organization with a realistic, multi-stage cyber event, we'll develop a scenario that reflects the risks your team is most likely to face, not a generic exercise used for every client.

That depends on the exercise objectives. Participants often include executive leadership, IT, security, legal, HR, communications, operations, privacy, and business leaders.

No. Our exercises include injects, evolving scenarios, decision points, facilitated discussions, observations, and an after-action report with prioritized recommendations.