Organizations that are regularly defending against cyberattacks can find it useful to occasionally take a step back and test their defense and response capabilities. One way to do this is through ...

Tabletop exercises are a familiar component within the emergency management preparedness phase. Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) Homeland Security Emergency Exercise and Evaluation Program ...

When conducting cybersecurity and other emergency management tabletop exercises, how far should you push your teams into uncomfortable situations? While goals of these exercises generally focus on ...

When your IT systems go down, every second counts — and the costs can be staggering. Research shows that more than half of IT and data centre outages cost over $100,000, and 16% exceed $1 million. In ...

Whether working at K-12 schools, colleges or hospitals, scenario-based training exercises, often referred to as tabletop exercises, are an effective way to improve campus safety and security. They ...

Jared Nishimoto (left) and Justin Mammen (right) present on emergency planning and tabletop exercises during the 2023 Court Technology Conference. It’s hard to settle cases when a court can’t meet, ...

One of the most frequently quoted numbers in cybersecurity is $4.35m – the average cost of a data breach, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022. Another less-known statistic from the ...

It's Monday morning, 8 a.m. You walk into the office and, on your computer screen, you witness something you've only ever experienced in your nightmares. "Boom! Your organization is hit with a ...

FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute trains about 30,000 people in person at its Emmitsburg, Md., campus each year, and another 1.9 million yearly via online classes. Recently, it added video ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year … for corporate security bosses to run tabletop exercises, simulating a hypothetical cyberattack or other emergency, running through incident processes, and ...