NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop Exercises

NASA Knows: 4 Key Lessons Learned From Tabletop Exercises

To NASA, fifty years ago and up to this day, NASA’s life-or-death learning is achieved through emergency simulation exercises.   Gerry Griffin knows a thing or two about responding to risks. He was the Mission Control flight director for all of NASA’s Apollo...
Why We Exercise

Why We Exercise

For September’s Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob will be discussing all things crisis simulation exercises. In this 10th episode, Rob talks about why we exercise.  ...
How Tabletop Exercises Make Strong Leaders

How Tabletop Exercises Make Strong Leaders

  “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” —John F. Kennedy JFK, the president who inspired a nation to reach the moon, knew a thing or two about leadership. His quote above succinctly drives the point: it’s continuous learning that makes...
The 5 Levels of Simulation Exercises

The 5 Levels of Simulation Exercises

All organizations should consider the advantages of implementing a comprehensive exercise program rather than focusing on singular periodic simulation exercises.   Whether they are a start-up company, an older well-established company, an organization undergoing...
4 Essential Cyber Security Tabletop Exercise Tips

4 Essential Cyber Security Tabletop Exercise Tips

When is the last time your organization conducted a cyber security tabletop exercise?   Cyber security teams are busy monitoring and responding to attacks against your organization’s information technology infrastructure. Should you still be conducting tabletop...
3 Reasons to Invest in a Tabletop Exercise

3 Reasons to Invest in a Tabletop Exercise

In any discussion on continuity of operations, it is reasonable to ask, “Why should my organization invest in a tabletop exercise program?”   While the reasons are many, some that serve as a foundation for a strategic-based approach to tabletop exercise programs...