
The Incident Response Tabletop Exercise: A Step-by-Step Guide for Mid-Market Companies
Most mid-market companies have some version of an incident response plan sitting in a shared drive. Fewer have ever actually tested it. The gap between “we have a plan” and “we know our plan works” only gets exposed one way: by running it, deliberately, before a real attacker does it for you. That’s what a tabletop exercise is for. It’s a structured, discussion-based simulation, no systems get touched, nothing goes offline, where your actual response

