Industries
The exercise only works when the scenario is yours
A generic ransomware script teaches a room very little. Each of these pages covers why tabletop exercises matter in that sector, the scenarios that expose real gaps, and the obligations your stakeholders will ask about afterwards.
Choose your sector
Where tabletop exercises change the outcome
Service providers and nine operating environments, each with its own decisions, clocks and consequences.
MSPs & MSSPs
Turn tabletop exercises into a repeatable service line
Your clients buy monitoring and patching, then discover during a real incident that nobody knows who declares one. Tabletop exercises are the fastest way to prove the value of your stack — and the easiest recurring engagement to sell.
Read the MSPs & MSSPs brief →Healthcare
Practise the day the systems that keep people alive go dark
In healthcare, downtime is a clinical event. Tabletop exercises rehearse the decisions that decide whether care continues on paper or stops altogether.
Read the Healthcare brief →Financial services
Rehearse under the clocks your regulators actually enforce
Banks, credit unions, insurers and fintechs are judged on how fast they detect, decide and disclose. Tabletop exercises are where those timelines get tested before an examiner does it for you.
Read the Financial Services brief →Manufacturing & OT
Decide who stops the line before someone has to guess
On the plant floor, the hardest question in an incident is not technical. It is whether production halts. Tabletop exercises put that decision in front of the people who own it while nothing is burning.
Read the Manufacturing & OT brief →Government
Exercise the services citizens cannot do without
Local authorities, agencies and public bodies run essential services on constrained budgets and long procurement cycles. Tabletop exercises expose the coordination gaps that turn an incident into a public one.
Read the Government & Public Sector brief →Education
Rehearse an incident that lands mid-term with an open network
Schools, colleges and universities run open networks, seasonal peaks and small security teams. Tabletop exercises help the people who will actually be on the call agree what happens first.
Read the Education brief →Retail & eCommerce
Practise the incident that arrives on your busiest trading day
Retail incidents hit revenue in real time. Tabletop exercises rehearse the trade-off between staying open and shutting down payment paths you cannot yet trust.
Read the Retail & eCommerce brief →Technology & SaaS
Your incident is also every customer's incident
When a SaaS platform is compromised, hundreds of customer security teams start asking the same questions at once. Tabletop exercises rehearse the engineering and disclosure work happening in parallel.
Read the Technology & SaaS brief →Energy & Utilities
Exercise the incidents that regulators and the public both notice
Utilities carry critical-infrastructure obligations and physical consequences. Tabletop exercises put grid, water and pipeline operators in the room with security and communications before a real event does.
Read the Energy & Utilities brief →