Incident Response "Scrimmage" Training Exercise

Intrusions and security breaches are a fact of life. Unfortunately, many organizations are ill prepared to deal with them. While there is no short cut, there is an efficient methodology for structuring that preparation – SystemExperts's Incident Response Scrimmage. As the name implies, this incident response table top training exercise follows the time honored technique that is ubiquitous in sports training. A small team of SystemExperts consultants develop, in advance, a set of relevant attack scenarios with an organization and then the SystemExperts "coaches" observe the attack identification and resolution process. The coaches jump in and stop the action whenever mistakes are made. After the coaches have explained the mistake and outlined the correct course of action, play resumes.

At the conclusion of the incident walk through, SystemExperts leads an informal Lessons Learned session in which the good, the bad, and the ugly of the Incident Response Scrimmage are reviewed and improvements are discussed in a collegial atmosphere.