Tabletop exercises that test the plan before an attacker does.
A response plan is only as good as the last time you ran it. SubRosa facilitates realistic tabletop exercises that put your team through a live scenario, exposing the gaps in your plan, tooling, and decision-making while the stakes are still hypothetical.
Custom scenarios · Facilitated · Executive & technical · Gap analysis
What is an incident response tabletop exercise?
An incident response tabletop exercise is a facilitated, discussion-based simulation of a security incident. A facilitator walks your team through a realistic scenario, ransomware, a data breach, business email compromise, and the team works through how they would detect, decide, communicate, and respond. It surfaces the gaps in your plan, roles, and tooling, and builds the muscle memory that makes a real response faster and calmer.
A drill built around your real risks.
Every exercise is designed around the scenarios most likely to hit your organization.
Custom scenario development
Scenarios built from real attacks and tailored to your industry, environment, and threat model.
Expert facilitation
Experienced responders facilitate the exercise, injecting realistic twists and keeping the discussion sharp.
Executive & technical tracks
Sessions for both leadership (decisions, comms, legal) and technical teams (containment, forensics, recovery).
Gap analysis & follow-up
A clear report of the gaps the exercise revealed, with prioritized recommendations and follow-up training.
Facilitated by real responders.
Realistic scenarios
Our facilitators have run real incidents, so the scenarios and curveballs reflect how attacks actually unfold.
Actionable findings
You leave with a concrete list of gaps and fixes, not just a feeling that the session went well.
Whole-team value
Exercises engage executives, IT, legal, and comms together, because a real incident involves all of them.
From exercise to improvement.
Your tabletop findings land in Sable: the gaps the exercise exposed, the owners, and the follow-up actions, tracked to closed, so each drill measurably improves your response instead of being forgotten by Monday.
- Detection & triage2 gaps
- Escalation & decisions1 gap
- Communications3 gaps
- Containment & recoveryNo gaps
Test your response on your terms.
Book a tabletop exercise and find the gaps in your incident response while the scenario is still hypothetical.