The exercise, developed with research by the RAND Corporation, goes through three sections, to simulate decision-makers’ experiences as events unfold, including the outbreak of a new influenza type at ...

U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Carol Ortiz, 355th Medical Support Squadron medical lab technician, prepares a COVID-19 sample kit at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, March 27, 2020. Medical staff ...

Testing your security policies and procedures in real-life scenarios can help you improve your security posture—if you implement the lessons learned. Tabletop exercises give your organization an ...

Developing an emergency operations plan (EOP) is no easy feat but it was a task Michael Reidenbach gladly took on. The EOP for Charleston County School District, which consists of 82 schools, hadn’t ...

On July 17, 2020 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the COVID-19 Recovery CISA Tabletop Exercise Package (CTEP) “to assist private sector stakeholders and critical ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Every 39 seconds some company is being hit by a cyberattack. Security incidents are a ...

When your IT systems go down, every second counts — and the costs can be staggering. Research shows that more than half of IT and data centre outages cost over $100,000, and 16% exceed $1 million. In ...

An incident response plan is a critical part of any cybersecurity portfolio, but plans need to be tested and practiced to be executed successfully. Cybersecurity incidents are dynamic situations, and ...