Improving Your Incident Response Plan With Effective Tabletop Exercises

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 9:45AM–10:30AM PT | California Promenade, Second Floor
Session Type: Poster
Delivery Format: Poster Session
Effective tabletop exercises are an excellent and cost effective way to discover gaps in your incident response plan and lead to critical improvements to your incident response program. With proper planning and by asking the right questions to senior leadership and key technical contributors you can find those “Aha!” items that will generate actionable items to improve your incident response process before you are in the middle of an incident when time is limited and the stakes are high.

Presenters

  • Brian Markham

    Chief Information Security Officer, EAB

  • Kevin Shivers

    Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, University of Maryland