As a third-party security consultant auditing an organization, you learn that their security team and key IT staff meet annually. In these meetings, they discuss their responses to various security incidents and disaster scenarios to refine policies and playbooks. This exercise is entirely discussion-based and does not involve live systems. What type of incident response exercise does this describe?
A tabletop exercise is a discussion-based session where key personnel meet to discuss their roles and responses to a simulated security incident, without using actual systems. This method is used to identify gaps in plans and procedures. A simulation, in contrast, is a more hands-on exercise that involves interacting with a simulated environment. Incident Response Planning (IRP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) refer to the overall process of creating the plans themselves, not the act of testing them through an exercise.
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