CyberLab Tabletop Exercise
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Tabletop Exercises
Turn incident response planning into a focused, hands‑on exercise.
Combine a posture assessment with phishing simulations, Live Hack demo, and a HackRisk.ai scan in an engaging tabletop session for your leadership team – followed by an executive‑ready report and action plan.
Not role‑play. Real data. Real insight.
Types of Tabletop Exercises
Phishing Attack
Build awareness and sharpen detection skills by simulating a realistic phishing attempt to test response protocols and user vigilance.
Ransomware Response
Stress‑test your organisation’s ability to contain, recover, and communicate during a ransomware outbreak without disrupting live systems.
Insider Threat
Evaluate how well your team identifies and mitigates risks posed by trusted insiders, ensuring robust controls and escalation paths.
Bespoke Scenarios
Tailor the exercise to your unique threat landscape and business priorities for maximum relevance and actionable insights.
Why Boards Choose CyberLab Tabletop Exercises
Framework-Based
Exercises are built on incident response best practices, ensuring your board’s decisions are benchmarked against recognised standards
Expert-Led
Sessions are facilitated by seasoned security consultants with deep industry experience and CREST/CHECK accreditations, providing credible insight and guidance throughout
Realistic, High-Impact Exercises
We create immersive, data-driven sessions that reveal real gaps in processes and decision-making
Fact-Based Scenarios
Every scenario is grounded in your actual risk profile, posture assessment, and sector-specific threats, ensuring the exercise is relevant and actionable
Actionable Outcomes
Boards receive a clear, prioritised roadmap for strengthening resilience, including an executive-ready report, SWOT analysis, and recommendations aligned to NIST phases
Trusted Security Partner
With over 30 years of experience and a reputation for protecting organisations nationwide, CyberLab offers credibility in every engagement
Tabletop Exercises: Process & Outcomes
A focused, collaborative session designed to align the workshop with your organisation’s business objectives, risk profile, and operational realities.
Key activities:
- Clarify strategic and operational goals for the exercise.
- Select sector-specific scenarios that reflect your threat landscape.
- Identify and confirm participation from key stakeholders, including:
- Board members and senior leadership
- IT and cybersecurity teams
- Legal and compliance
- HR and operations
- Communications and PR
This step ensures the exercise is relevant, realistic, and aligned with your priorities.
A CyberLab security consultant will benchmark your current cyber posture against either:
NIST Cybersecurity Framework, or
NCSC guidelines (UK-specific best practice).
Purpose:
- Identify strengths and vulnerabilities in your current approach.
- Ensure the workshop is tailored to your environment, sector, and regulatory obligations.
- Provide a baseline for measuring improvement post-exercise.
A dynamic, high-energy role-play session where your team navigates a realistic cyber incident scenario—without impacting live systems.
What to expect:
- Scenario preparation: Built using insights from the scoping call and posture assessment.
- Live Hack demonstration: Delivered by CREST- and CHECK-certified testers to illustrate real-world attack techniques.
- Guided discussion: Structured around the NIST incident response phases.
- Role clarity: Each participant understands their responsibilities across critical functions.
- No-fault environment: Focused on learning and improvement, not blame.
This immersive experience helps teams stress-test processes, communication flows, and decision-making under pressure.
Following the workshop, CyberLab consultants will:
- Present a comprehensive report detailing findings, observations, and recommendations.
- Highlight strengths, gaps, and priority actions for remediation.
- Facilitate an executive-level debrief to ensure alignment and momentum for ongoing improvement.
This final step transforms insights into actionable next steps, supporting continuous enhancement of your cyber resilience.
Our Accreditations & Qualifications
CREST (the Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers) is an international accreditation with a strict Codes of Conduct and Ethics. CHECK is the Government-backed accreditation from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which certifies that a company can conduct authorised penetration tests of public sector systems and networks.
With decades of combined experience, our team and take pride in operating at the highest level of the industry and always aim to go the extra mile.
CyberLab Accreditations
Cyber Essentials Plus
Cyber Resilience Centre Trusted Partner
IASME Consortium Gold Certified Company
CREST PEN TEST certified
CREST VA certified
Penetration Tester Accreditations
CREST Practitioner Security Analysts
CREST Registered Penetration Testers
CREST Certified Web Application Testers
CREST Certified Infrastructure Testers
CHECK Team Member
CHECK Team Leader – Infrastructure
CHECK Team Leader – Applications
Tabletop Exercise FAQ's
We recommend cross‑functional participation spanning executive leadership and the operational owners of response: board/senior leadership, IT/cyber, legal/compliance, HR, operations, and communications/PR.
Including every role that influences detection, response, and stakeholder management ensures decisions and handoffs are tested end‑to‑end.
We will produce an executive‑ready Report & Action Plan including:
- Executive summary
- Posture assessment
- HackRisk.AI findings
- SWOT analysis of the workshop,
- Prioritised recommendations aligned to the NIST phases
- An interactive executive presentation with Q&A.
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Whether you’re looking to implement basic cyber security best practice, improve your existing defences, or introduce a new system or solution, our team of expert consultants, engineers, and ethical hackers are here to help.
Our team specialise in creating bespoke security solutions and testing packages to improve and maintain your security posture.
We are 100% vendor agnostic and will only ever recommend the best products and solutions for your requirements.
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