Incident Response Under Pressure: An Interactive Tabletop Overview for Healthcare & Financial Services

What happens when a cyber incident hits and your team has to make critical decisions in real time?

Join Abacus for the next installment in our Expert Intelligence Webinar Series, where our team will run an interactive incident response tabletop exercise that explores what makes an effective tabletop, how teams should prepare and participate, and how exercises can uncover gaps in your incident response plan.

We’ll start with a high-level look at what a tabletop entails, including how to structure an exercise, who should be involved, what teams should evaluate, and how to turn findings into actionable improvements.

We’ll then deep dive into two real-world case studies – one in healthcare and one in financial services – and walk through the steps taken throughout each incident, from initial detection and assessment through containment, investigation, communication, recovery, and lessons learned.

We’ll also examine how industry-specific compliance requirements and regulations can influence incident response decisions, priorities, and communications.

You’ll learn:

• What makes an effective incident response tabletop exercise
• Who should participate and what roles they play
• How to build realistic scenarios that test your response process
• The key decisions teams face as an incident unfolds
• How to balance containment, investigation, and business continuity
• How regulatory and compliance requirements can impact incident response
• How to move from response and recovery to lessons learned and meaningful improvements
• How tabletop exercises can reveal gaps before a real incident exposes them

The question isn’t whether your organization has an incident response plan. It’s whether your team is ready to execute it when the pressure is on.

Throughout the session, you’ll have opportunities to weigh in on key decisions and see how the scenarios unfold.

Join us September 29 for a practical, interactive look at incident response tabletop exercises, and what it takes to be ready when the unexpected happens.