The Exercise Control Team
In the 17th episode of our Whiteboard Wednesday video series, Rob discusses the Exercise Control Team, which is the group responsible for creating, delivering and evaluating the exercise.
In today’s environment, it is important that businesses prepare themselves for a crisis. There are many ways to do this, but one of the most overlooked ones is having a crisis management team in place. The five steps to creating a better prepared crisis management team starts with understanding the current capabilities from what training…
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 exercises? The answer is yes, of course you should. Although some teams seem to be in response mode on…
In today’s rapidly changing world, hospitals and healthcare facilities face an ever-increasing range of challenges, from natural disasters to public health crises. To effectively respond to these emergencies, hospitals must have robust emergency management plans in place. One valuable tool in this arsenal is the Emergency Action Plan (EAP), which outlines the procedures and protocols…
Advantages and Disadvantage of the Tabletop Exercise I came across some information regarding the main advantages and disadvantages of tabletop exercises. I decided to expand on the list based on my experience and knowledge of conducting these types of exercises regularly. The tabletop exercise is the most common kind of training exercise conducted by corporations…
Corporations have a duty of care when it comes to their employees operating in unfamiliar environments. Preparing those employees for various threats is every evolving challenge. In this podcast, we talk to Charles Skinner who talks about some specific travel security challenges in Africa as well as what organizations can do to help protect their…
These Seven Tips Will Help You Create Impactful and Memorable Crisis Simulation Tabletop Exercises 1. Ensure your tabletop exercise gets off to a good start by doing this…. Ensure you invite the right audience. This may seem obvious, but I have seen tabletop exercises fail when the they include functions that are not engaged throughout…
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