Cyber Crisis Exercises
Learn how to deal with a cyber security incident through interactive workshops and simulated scenarios.
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A CYBER CRISIS EXERCISE IS GOOD PREPARATION
Do you know who the key points of contact are in your organization in the event of a cyberattack? What are the roles and responsibilities of each team member, and what do you expect from them during a crisis response?
Realistic exercises
Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity's extensive involvement in current cybersecurity best practices means that our crisis exercises are highly realistic. This means your crisis teams get the chance to practice their response in a setting that is as close to real life as possible. Your exercise design and delivery team will be made up of technical cybersecurity specialists as well as crisis management experts.
- Our incident response experts directly support customers impacted by cyber attacks so they are best placed to provide insight into how current attackers work.
- Our Red Teaming specialists are constantly finding new ways to compromise organizations, which helps make our simulations realistic.
Gain insight into your crisis response capabilities
Train your crisis teams
Combine crisis and technical expertise
HOW WE SUPPORT YOU
Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity helps large and medium sized organizations all over the world raise their cyber resilience. We know the importance of practicing the management of a cyber crisis before it occurs. You will discover how well your organization is prepared for handling a cyber attack. And on which points you can improve, like appointing a crisis team and updating procedures.
Choosing the right exercise
Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity offers different types of cyber crisis exercises. Selecting the right exercise will depend on your exercise objectives, your target audience and your organization's exercise program maturity.
Operational: Do you want to exercise your immediate response to a cyber incident? Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity can tailor exercises to suit your operational response teams. Whether that's your site business continuity team, cyber response team, or your wider operational response groups.
Tactical: Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity can also deliver crisis exercises designed to provide your wider tactical crisis management teams with an understanding of the impacts of cyber incidents. This could be your regional crisis management team or your wider senior management functions including Human Resources, Property Management, and Communications, for example.
Strategic: Cyber incidents often go beyond just the immediate technical response and require strategic, long-term decisions to be made. Exercises can therefore also be delivered to your executive or board crisis teams to allow them to gain confidence in responding to a complex cyber scenario.
For industrial environments with Operational Technology (OT) and Industrial Control systems (ICS) we offer a special OT Tabletop Cyber Crisis Management Workshop.
Different types of Cyber Crisis Exercises
Walk-through |
Are you thinking of holding your first crisis exercise? Or do you want to test a new plan or cyber crisis playbook? This simple exercise guides participants through a scenario in a controlled discussion-based format. |
Tabletop |
To make things a little more realistic, you can try a tabletop exercise. Participants will be provided with simulated scenario updates and have to work together as a team to respond. We have a Tabletop Exercise specifically designed for Ransomware. |
Functional |
Is there a specific area of response capability you’d like to exercise, such as running an exercise with a new crisis communications team? Or new equipment or software you want to practice? Then this may be the exercise for you. |
Live – Full Scale |
Has your crisis team been through several tabletops? Are you looking for something closer to reality? Do you want to exercise the interaction and communication between your operational, tactical, and strategic crisis teams? A live or full-scale exercise contains more realistic scenario injects, to really bring the complexities of crisis response to life. |
Gold Teaming |
This is the ultimate cyber crisis exercise and Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity’s unique selling point. Rather than a hypothetical scenario, what if your crisis teams had to coordinate the response to a real-life ransomware attack? Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity’s technical experts will hack into your critical applications. Their findings are used by our crisis experts to design a crisis scenario for your senior teams. |
Steps in cyber crisis exercises
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Preparation
During preparation, we discuss the final scope of the exercise, our approach, the planning, and the desired results with you. We then collect relevant documentation about your IT environment and the crisis infrastructure within your organization. We then create a realistic scenario for the exercise.
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Performing the CRISIS EXERCISE
We conduct a highly realistic incident simulation, during which participants respond to a series of incident updates. We provide simulated notifications during the exercise, as well as supervision and observation.
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EVALUATION
After the exercise, we provide a memo of the observations made during the exercise. This contains the lessons from the exercise and recommendations for the crisis teams, that can be used to improve incident response and crisis management within your organization.
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Why choose Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity
Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity is your expert partner in cybersecurity. We help organizations identify risks, strengthen defenses and comply with cybersecurity standards and regulations. Our services cover people, processes and technology, ranging from awareness training and social engineering to security advice, compliance and penetration testing.
We operate across IT, OT and IoT environments, supporting both digital systems and connected products. With over 300 cybersecurity professionals worldwide, we combine deep technical expertise with a global presence. Bureau Veritas Cybersecurity is part of the Bureau Veritas Group, a global leader in testing, inspection and certification.