Tabletops
Interactive Simulations for Incidents and Disasters
Partner with our experienced professionals to enhance your CMMC compliance. We’ll help you identify and address gaps in your incident response and disaster recovery plans, ensuring you meet all CMMC requirements effectively.
What is a Tabletop
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Secure-Centric's
Tabletops
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An expert team to enhance your CMMC incident response and disaster recovery strategies.
Our experienced team is here to help you strengthen your incident response and disaster recovery plans in line with CMMC requirements. Through engaging tabletop exercises, we guide you in evaluating your strategies against theoretical scenarios, allowing us to identify potential shortcomings. Our goal is to ensure that your organization has the necessary contacts, technology, and processes in place, fully prepared to respond effectively before a breach or attack occurs.
At Secure-Centric, tabletop simulations are tailored for your CMMC compliance.
At Secure-Centric, our tabletop simulations are customized to analyze the unique aspects of your organization’s CMMC compliance. Our experts will work closely with you to gather information about your network configuration, specific scenarios of interest, and the level of challenge you wish to assess. This in-depth understanding of your current environment allows us to create adaptable scenarios aimed at strengthening your overall compliance program.
Connect with our experts to strengthen your CMMC compliance
We’ll work with you to refine and develop your compliance program, focusing on the elements that have the greatest impact on your organization’s CMMC readiness.
Tabletop Stages
Strategy
Our tabletop engagement commences by comprehending your environment, determining the desired severity of the theoretical incident, and crafting scenarios tailored to your specifications.
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Simulation
The simulation involves navigating through the plan in response to the presented scenario. We establish the context, execute your plan, introduce realistic alterations to the incident considering your environment and the attack, and assess your adaptability.
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Summary
In each engagement we integrate more IR team members and analysts to transcribe the discussion. Together we analyze notes collaboratively, identifying key components for enhancements.
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Presentation + Suggestions
After formulating suggestions for improvement, we communicate the findings to your team, guiding them on necessary changes. This serves as a valuable training opportunity, especially for IT outsiders who are equally affected by system downtime.
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Disaster Recovery Tabletop
Disaster Recovery Tabletop
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A disaster recovery plan is centered around preserving system uptime when confronted with either a natural or man-made crisis.
Incident Response Tabletop
Incident Response Tabletop
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An incident response plan is geared towards identifying, mitigating, and recovering from information security threats.
Tabletop Frequently Asked Questions
What's the timeframe for initiating the process? We maintain a conversational and adaptable approach in this exercise. The advantage is that we don't spend a long time crafting a simulation. We can change things based on the conversation's dynamics. This agility allows us to promptly get you what you need with these exercises.
Is it a prerequisite to have a pre-established plan to participate in tabletop exercises? Although it's not mandatory to have a pre-existing plan, it's strongly recommended. Engaging our team without a plan will still provide valuable insights into dealing with incidents, but the primary aim is to assess and validate your existing plan.
What type of incidents are typically simulated in your exercises? We assess the potential impact of an event on your organization ranging from 1-10 according to your testing preferences. Considering this scale and insights gathered about your environment and vulnerabilities, we tailor a scenario that aligns with your needs. A frequently encountered level is 7, comparable to a breach or attack.
What is the recommended frequency for conducting tabletop exercises? These simulations are designed to be a frequent and cost-effective tool. While organizations are typically advised to conduct these yearly, it's best to do them 2-4 times a year.
Why Choose Secure-Centric?
Our Custom-Tailored Approach
Expertise + Proficiency
With decades of experience in the technology sector, Secure-Centric's team is well-equipped to assist you with all your CMMC compliance needs. By choosing to enhance your security program through our vCISO services, you gain the advantage of extensive expertise tailored to achieving compliance. Beyond our experience, you’ll be partnering with a dedicated team that genuinely cares about your organization’s success.
Mission Based + Goal Oriented
At Secure-Centric, our goal is to help you achieve CMMC compliance and restore confidence in your data security. We understand the challenges organizations face in safeguarding sensitive information and are committed to partnering with you throughout the entire compliance journey. By working together before, during, and after any potential breach, we focus on genuinely enhancing your security measures and protecting your organization's reputation and integrity.
Focus + Expertise
Our exclusive focus is on CMMC compliance and nothing else. Our sole dedication is to understanding the requirements, protocols, and services necessary for achieving certification. This specialization allows our virtual CISO team to provide impartial guidance that truly transforms your compliance practices. We will work closely with your team, informing and educating them throughout the entire process to ensure you meet all necessary standards.
Strategy + Approach
We recognize that no organization is the same, so why would our approach to CMMC compliance be standardized? You are unique, and so is our strategy. We understand that each organization has its own compliance needs at varying levels of development. We conduct a thorough assessment to understand your current CMMC practices, identifying assets and challenges. From there, we apply industry best practices to provide tailored recommendations that facilitate meaningful enhancements and refinements to your compliance journey.