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Specialized Security Management: Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

Incident simulations are one of the best ways of testing a company's incident response processes. This course will teach you how to plan and execute a complete tabletop exercise.

Ricardo Reimao - Pluralsight course - Specialized Security Management: Incident Response Tabletop Exercise
by Ricardo Reimao

What you'll learn

During a cyber incident, it's crucial for teams to have knowledge and hands-on experience in incident response procedures. Tabletop exercises offer an opportunity to simulate cyber attack scenarios, reinforce protocols, and uncover weaknesses in the response process. In this course, Specialized Security Management: Incident Response Tabletop Exercise, you’ll learn to simulate real-world cyber incidents to test and improve your organization’s response capabilities. First, you’ll explore how to identify needs and create attack scenarios. Next, you’ll discover how to run the exercise with the stakeholders. Finally, you’ll learn how to compile your observations into an actionable report. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge of attack simulations needed to create and execute complete tabletop exercises.

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About the author

Ricardo Reimao - Pluralsight course - Specialized Security Management: Incident Response Tabletop Exercise
Ricardo Reimao

Ricardo is a Cybersecurity Consultant based in Toronto (Canada). He has 10+ years of IT experience, 6 of them in the IT Security field. His main interests are: SIEM solutions (IBM QRadar), Enterprise Security Risk, Penetration Testing, Security processes/procedures and Network Security.

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