Testing and measuring your Organisation’s Cyber Incident Response Plans and Breach Readiness Maturity
The Cyber Incident Response Tabletop Scenario Exercises designed and run by CM-Alliance is a unique blend of verbal and visual simulation along with interactive discussions on an agreed cyber-attack scenario relevant to the organisation.
Our cyber incident response tabletop scenario exercises are:
We are a UK Government Crown Commercial Service Supplier (G-Cloud 12) and the Cyber Crisis Tabletop exercise is listed on Gov.uk Digital Marketplace.
“Documents that have never been read, procedures that have never been practiced, checklists that have never been verified are as useful and functional as having a brand-new mobile phone with no charging cable or power adaptor.”
Amar Singh, CEO, Cyber Management Alliance Ltd
Remote or Onsite Exercise? We can run a full cyber incident response tabletop scenario exercise either remotely or onsite.
The only way you can determine if your incident response plans will work during a real crisis is to test them with a tabletop exercise. At CM-Alliance, we believe that practice makes perfect when it comes to cyber crisis management. Running practice cyber scenario response workshops:
We are one of the world’s leading independent cyber incident & crisis management authorities and creators of several courses and workshops in cyber incident response and planning, playbooks and crisis management.
Benefits of partnering with CM-Alliance to host your testing tabletop exercises include;
"I would recommend Cyber Management Alliance’s tabletop workshops to anyone genuinely interested in being on top of their cyber incident response strategies. The format and style of conducting the entire workshop is what I found a lot of value in. Most importantly, the scenarios on which the workshop was based were relevant to the business, making the exercise a great investment of time and resources."
Mudassar Ulhaq - Chief Information Officer - Director
Waverton Investment Management, London, UK
We take a structured approach to planning and running our tabletop exercises and have a straightforward process.
The image below describes, step-by-step, how we approach our cyber testing workshops
After the tabletop exercise based on a data breach tabletop exercise template you receive a formal executive summary and report that contains:
We offer both management focused and technical tabletop exercises and recommend the following participants for both audiences:
If relevant, representatives from key service providers
"The CCTE and corresponding audit conducted by Cyber Management Alliance Ltd was expertly delivered and has given us insights to reinforce our cyber strategy by continuing to help build the picture of where we were, where we are now and our next focussed steps. We will be engaging CM-Alliance on an annual basis."
Neil Mallon - Strategic Technology Leader
Aster Group UK"Cyber Management Alliance Ltd assigned their top and experienced security consultants to deliver our requirements. The consultants worked closely with my team and conducted output focused workshops to then plan, produce and conduct deeply engaging tabletop exercises. CM-Alliance's methodology and approach helped extract the most relevant information and data to enable them to construct highly relevant attack scenarios.
Both the technical and executive tabletop sessions conducted by Cyber Management Alliance Ltd met all our objectives. The attendees from both the sessions were impressed with the facilitation and the outcome driven approach and left the participants more informed and aware of the response processes and procedures."
Nadeem Bashir
IT Compliance Manager
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Europe Ltd.
We are one of the world’s leading independent cyber incident & crisis management authority offering advisory services, executive training, and bespoke workshops in all aspects of cyber crisis management, incident planning, incident-response testing and tabletop exercises.
We are the creators of the internationally acclaimed UK-Government’s NCSC-Certified, Cyber Incident Planning and Response (CIPR) course and have trained attendees from organisations including the United Nations, UK Ministry of Defence, several UK Police Forces, NHS Trusts, European Central Bank, Swiss National Bank, Microsoft, Ernst and Young and many others.
"I would recommend Cyber Management Alliance’s tabletop workshops to anyone genuinely interested in being on top of their cyber incident response strategies. The format and style of conducting the entire workshop is what I found a lot of value in. Most importantly, the scenarios on which the workshop was based were relevant to the business, making the exercise a great investment of time and resources."
Chief Information Officer - Director - Investment Management, London
"The CCTE and corresponding audit conducted by Cyber Management Alliance Ltd was expertly delivered and has given us insights to reinforce our cyber strategy by continuing to help build the picture of where we were, where we are now and our next focussed steps. We will be engaging CM-Alliance on an annual basis."
Strategic Technology Leader
Aster Group UK
"Amar is a unique individual, able to look at the minute detail of a security issue whilst holding onto a commercially aware "bigger picture". His largest impact was the design, procurement and implementation of a new firewall solution for the Trust which was a remarkably smooth project."
Tony Ball
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trus
"I worked with Amar on a complex requirement that he was trying to fulfil. He is a proficient communicator and was able to dissect the request down into smaller, measurable pieces of work."
Senior IT Security Consultant
"Amar brings a unique mix of business strategy, technical and managerial experience. He is a thought leader on a large number of cyber related topics including response planning in event of a major cyber incident, responding to cyber attacks, training for senior executives and setting the correct agenda at board level."
CITI BANK
"Amar is marvelous in his knowledge and experience on cyber security and data protection. He comes with a vast experience and knowledge bank. I have not seen many professionals like him in the industry, as he has a deep technical understanding and a very good commercial and business focused mindset."
Head-Business Operations @ Enterprise Security Risk Managment
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES
"Amar is a knowledge leader in the domain of IT Security, Privacy, GRC and I have benefitted from his Cyber Business Executive Programme at Shrivenham, U.K. Now it is a life long connection and an opportunity to discuss Cyber with a reliable friend as and when I need."
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICE
"I've enjoyed sharing information with Amar, meeting over coffee's to discuss emerging trends in Cyber and learning about the challenges faced by a CISO within a large organisation. I continue to look forward to Amars publications on Information Security and find him a very interesting person to work with."
News International
"Amar is unique; A great person with a very creative and fresh approach to information security & risk management. He is very experienced professional, a very good influencer and finds always the right way to communicate."
Cyberr Security Manager KPMG
"Amar was a keynote speaker as well as a panelist on the Hackers versus CISOs debate at the 2012 Global CISO Forum. He brought a lot of expertise and insight to the event and was a major contributor to the overall success. He was great to work with and extremely generous with his time and knowledge."
EC-Council
"Amar was a keynote speaker as well as a panelist on the Hackers versus CISOs debate at the 2012 Global CISO Forum. He brought a lot of expertise and insight to the event and was a major contributor to the overall success. He was great to work with and extremely generous with his time and knowledge."
EC-Council
"Amar is unique; A thorough professional he is both technically sound and experienced in engaging and winning over executive leadership and has the acumen to drive the Information Security message throughout the organisation."
Manager, Solutions Architecture
"I like Amar's unique and fresh approach to information security & risk management. Very business-like with a constant focus on practical Information security I am greatly impressed with the way he deals with all level of management including Senior C level executives to the super techies and of course us project managers. A true professional in every sense."
Senior Project Manager at National Grid
Atos International
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