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There are only two ways to know if your company is ready for a cyber crisis: 1. Experience a devasting cyber attack and survive 2. Enhance resiliency through rigorous cyber exercises You have invested significantly to establish your cybersecurity controls. XDR, DLP, SIEM, MFA, SASE, NGFW, UEBA. 24/7/365 Security Operations have been stood up to guard your business. Incident Response Plans are in place. You hired the industry's best minds to accelerate your cybersecurity program. And yet there is this nagging feeling that keeps you up at night. Are we ready to handle a crisis? The news is relentless. Company XYZ suffers from a significant cyber attack. City of ABC emergency services disrupted by ransomware attack. Your boss gives you a call. "I know there is no 100% protection, but how confident are you in our ability to respond?" We have the best people on the job, procedures, and plans are in place, and we just launched XXX tool. "Just give it some thought. I have the board and investors breathing down my neck to assure them." Thoughts race through your mind. Are we really ready to handle a crisis? The team has recently gone through a tremendous transformation. New tools New people New team structure New critical vendors New concept of operations And yet, they have not been put through the fire. Are our tools tuned to detect the latest IOCs? Is our SOC manager going to perform under pressure? Does our enterprise risk team know their role in an incident? How reliable are our critical partners and will they respond in time? You reach out to your trusted cybersecurity consulting firm. "You need to demonstrate all these capabilities through a comprehensive cyber exercise program." "Let's run a simple tabletop to assess the readiness of your team. Then we can go from there." The proposal comes in your mailbox Monday morning. One tabletop exercise: $50,000 Multi-series exercise plus the establishment of a cyber exercise program: > $200,000 Here's where I can help. I executed >50 exercises for a top North American financial institution. I established a comprehensive cyber exercise program detailing drills, tabletop exercises, and live ex I ran the Naval Wargaming & Simulation Centre and have been running exercises for >15 years I distilled all that knowledge into this book. The Essential Cybersecurity Exercise Playbook. You will learn all that you need to run exercises and establish a cyber exercise program. Link in profile. Invest in your readiness today.