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Notes from the exercise room
Short, practical writing on running cybersecurity tabletop exercises: what breaks, what works, and how to leave a client with something their board will read.
2026-09-13 · 7 min
The Importance of a Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise
Cybersecurity tabletop exercises help teams rehearse critical decisions, expose response gaps and assign practical improvements before a real incident.
2026-09-07 · 6 min
How to Use TableTop Sim in Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet
Learn how to facilitate a live cybersecurity tabletop exercise with TableTop Sim while your customer or internal team meets in Teams, Zoom, or Google Meet.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
How MSPs and MSSPs Deliver Tabletop Exercises as a Service
A practical delivery model for MSPs and MSSPs offering repeatable cybersecurity tabletop exercises across their client portfolios.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
How to Run an Executive Tabletop Exercise Without Losing the Room
Learn how to keep executives engaged in a cybersecurity tabletop exercise through focused decisions, staged injects, clear roles and disciplined facilitation.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
Tabletop Exercise Inject Examples That Force Decisions
Learn how to write tabletop exercise injects that create time-bound choices, expose trade-offs and produce actions for the after-action report.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
The Tabletop Exercise Facilitator Playbook
A practical playbook for scoping, preparing, running and reporting a cybersecurity tabletop exercise that tests decisions rather than presentation skills.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
How to Build a 12-Month Cybersecurity Exercise Programme
Build a 12-month cybersecurity exercise programme that tests decisions, rotates participants and turns lessons into owned improvements.
2026-09-04 · 7 min
How to Run Your First Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise in TableTop Sim
Learn how to scope, prepare, facilitate and document your first live cybersecurity tabletop exercise in TableTop Sim.