Assign clear ownership for each element of security simulation and tabletop exercises across the functions involved.
Building Security Simulation Centres and Tabletop Exercises
Practical training in security simulation and tabletop exercises, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.
📍 Tripoli🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Insider risk in security simulation and tabletop exercises is uncomfortable to discuss and expensive to ignore. Security arrangements around tabletop exercises are tested by adversaries, not by auditors. The version of the wider corporate security practice agenda described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. Comparative studies of security simulation and tabletop exercises across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Participants test their assumptions about the corporate security practice capability against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on tabletop exercises and revise it on evidence. It is pitched for practitioners with responsibility for security simulation and tabletop exercises, not for observers of it. It establishes a shared vocabulary for tabletop exercises so that teams can disagree productively about it. Participants leave with a plan for this part of corporate security practice sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Design layered controls for tabletop exercises across deterrence, detection, delay and response.
Recognise early indicators that security simulation and tabletop exercises is drifting away from its intended design.
Build the reporting on tabletop exercises that senior management can act on.
Communicate the purpose of security simulation and tabletop exercises to those who have to comply with it.
Balance security requirements in tabletop exercises against operational practicality.
Coordinate with civil defence, police and external authorities on security simulation and tabletop exercises.
Who Should Attend
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on security simulation and tabletop exercises.
Executives responsible for approving investment in tabletop exercises.
Business continuity and crisis managers covering security simulation and tabletop exercises.
Training and development staff building internal capability in tabletop exercises.
Security managers and officers responsible for security simulation and tabletop exercises.
Investigation and loss prevention specialists working on tabletop exercises.
Course Modules
Security simulation and tabletop exercises: incident response and escalation
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the threat to security simulation and tabletop exercises specifically, not generically
- Check that controls on security simulation and tabletop exercises cover deterrence, detection, delay and response.
- Agree what will be standardised in tabletop exercises and what will not.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when security simulation and tabletop exercises underperforms.
- Protect sensitive information relating to tabletop exercises from casual disclosure.
Session 2Coordinating with external authorities on tabletop exercises
- Verify identity checks applied at entry points relevant to security simulation and tabletop exercises.
- Set the review interval for tabletop exercises and who attends.
- Assess contractor and third-party exposure within security simulation and tabletop exercises.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in tabletop exercises.
Tabletop exercises: layered controls — deter, detect, delay, respond
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Testing tabletop exercises before relying on it
- Compare the cost of security simulation and tabletop exercises with the cost of its absence.
- Confirm that those complying with tabletop exercises understand why it exists.
- Review surveillance coverage for security simulation and tabletop exercises against likely approach routes.
- Establish evidence handling and chain of custody for tabletop exercises.
Session 2Exercising the plan for tabletop exercises realistically
- Confirm access control on security simulation and tabletop exercises cannot be routinely bypassed.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for tabletop exercises.
- Check that records of security simulation and tabletop exercises answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Check that tabletop exercises still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Tabletop exercises: threat assessment and intelligence
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making the investment case for tabletop exercises
- Review security simulation and tabletop exercises after every incident, exercise or change in threat.
- Define the trigger that would require tabletop exercises to be redesigned.
- Identify vulnerabilities in security simulation and tabletop exercises and rank them by consequence, not ease of fix.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to tabletop exercises.
Session 2Insider risk inside security simulation and tabletop exercises
- Exercise the plan for security simulation and tabletop exercises under realistic conditions and record failures.
- Confirm recorded material from tabletop exercises is retained long enough to be useful.
- Benchmark the organisation's security simulation and tabletop exercises against comparable operations.
- Define the first response actions for an incident involving tabletop exercises.
Tabletop exercises: surveillance, monitoring and control rooms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing tabletop exercises when nothing has gone wrong
- Assess insider risk in roles with privileged access to security simulation and tabletop exercises.
- Reduce the variation in how tabletop exercises is carried out between teams.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of security simulation and tabletop exercises current.
- Set escalation criteria and out-of-hours contacts for tabletop exercises.
Session 2Who answers for tabletop exercises, and to whom
- Agree the smallest change to security simulation and tabletop exercises that would be visibly useful.
- Build the threat picture for tabletop exercises from sources relevant to this site and sector.
- Anticipate the objections security simulation and tabletop exercises will raise and prepare the answers.
- Supervise and spot-check performance on tabletop exercises rather than relying on reports.
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