Test Your Incident Response Plans Before a Real Attack Does

Bishop Fox’s world-class Red Team works closely with your organization to develop scenarios in line with trends in the threat landscape and industry-specific risks, ensuring a realistic and relevant test of your incident response plans. We leverage our extensive experience working with clients across many industries, to facilitate a collaborative process that encourages stakeholder collaboration and delivers an accurate assessment of your readiness and identifies any critical gaps in your strategy.

This methodology document provides an overview of Bishop Fox's approach to Incident Response Tabletop Exercise (IR TTX) engagements that comprise:

• Planning & Preparation

  • Customer provides IR process & procedures documentation

  • Discovery & scenario development meetings

  • Tabletop exercise development & approval

  • Engagement scheduling

• Facilitation
  • Tabletop exercise
  • Debriefing
  • Anonymous post-exercise survey
• Report
  • Cyber IR Readiness score
  • Post-engagement meeting
  • Recommendations

Why Tabletop Exercises 

Incident response plans look good on paper. But do they work under pressure?

Tabletop exercises reveal:

• Whether stakeholders understand their roles and responsibilities
• If communication protocols work across teams and leadership
• Where gaps exist in procedures and playbooks
• How quickly your team can make critical decisions
• Whether technical and business teams coordinate effectively
• If escalation paths are clear and functional

The goal: identify and fix problems before a real incident exposes them.

Who Should Read this Methodology 

• CISOs and security leaders planning IR preparedness programs
• Incident response managers building exercise programs
• SOC and IR team leads preparing for tabletop exercises
• Business continuity and crisis management teams
• Compliance teams validating IR capability requirements

Download the Full Methodology 

Get detailed insights into Bishop Fox's incident response tabletop exercise approach. This methodology document outlines how we develop realistic scenarios, facilitate effective exercises, and deliver actionable assessments of your IR readiness.