Cybersecurity Crisis Exercise
A cybersecurity crisis exercise is a simulated exercise designed to test the readiness of companies and their employees to respond to a crisis situation arising from a cyber incident. The aim of the exercise is to identify organisational weaknesses, improve response capabilities and raise awareness of potential gaps in crisis planning.
Who is it for?
The cybersecurity crisis exercise is designed for companies that already have a satisfactory level of cybersecurity maturity and have at least basic security measures in place. The crisis exercise is the next logical step to test preparedness and the effectiveness of the measures implemented in a simulation exercise.
What problems or needs does it solve?
- Readiness and awareness – Crisis training improves your team’s readiness to act quickly and effectively in a real emergency. It creates awareness of potential weaknesses in the cyber incident management process and allows you to improve it around the table.
- Cooperation and communication – Rapid response requires cooperation between the different actors involved. Communication in such a tight timeframe must be transparent and described in advance. Who is responsible for what? How to get in touch with the right people? When and how will someone be informed externally? During an incident, the organisation is in chaos and everyone needs to know what to do. Mapping of external partners is also an important part of the plan. Who manages your IT systems? Which environments do external parties have access to? Do you have an IT partner who can help you in the event of a cyber incident? All these contacts should be outlined in your communication plan.
- Continuous training – Staff need cyber security training. They need to know how to deal with sensitive information, how to respond to a situation where they are contacted by the media during an incident, for example. Crisis training allows all such points to be thoroughly analysed and, in turn, raises staff security awareness.
Elements of a successful crisis exercise
All companies are different and the exercise aims to focus on real-life threats that are specific to the industry or sector.
The more realistic the exercise, the better the different actors will be able to identify with the situation during the exercise.
One of the main aims of the exercise is to divide participants into roles, allowing everyone to understand the responsibilities of their team members.
The role-based approach also allows for the creation or improvement of a communication plan.
Thinking through how to respond to a cyber incident allows you to draw up a detailed plan.
The worst thing that can happen in a real situation is for everyone to act on everything.
A plan allows you to focus on the incident in a methodical way.
Incident identification, containment, evidence collection and subsequent analysis are all part of the plan.
After the exercise, it is necessary to take stock of everything that could improve the previous process.
Continuous updating of the contingency plan is essential as our IT infrastructure, staff and the business in general are constantly changing, and so are the risk factors.
Why OIXIO Cyber?
- Methodology – The exercise is based on a recognised methodology on which we design realistic risk scenarios based on the company’s business specificity and field of activity.
- People – Crisis exercise is carried out by professionals with a wealth of experience in their field, who are both good theoreticians and good practitioners.
- Ability– We have the ability to assess the situation, develop a plan and implement it.
Our experience
We have conducted crisis exercise for both larger and smaller Estonian companies.
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