Building Cyber Resilience Through Realistic Simulations
Cyber incidents are inevitable. What differentiates resilient organisations is not whether an incident occurs, but how effectively leadership, teams, and partners respond under pressure.
Maple’s Incident Response (IR) Tabletop Exercise (TTX) is a scenario-driven simulation designed to provide credible assurance that your organisation can manage a serious cyber incident in line with regulatory expectations, industry standards, and board-level governance requirements.
An Incident Response Tabletop Exercise is a facilitated, discussion-based simulation of a realistic cyber attack, testing your playbook(s). Participants respond as they would during a live incident, making decisions with incomplete information, time pressure, and competing business priorities. The exercise goes beyond technical containment to test:
· Executive decision-making and governance
· Incident escalation and authority
· Legal, regulatory, and notification considerations
· Internal and external communications (including media and stakeholders)
· Coordination with third parties such as insurers, suppliers, and regulators
The result is a clear, defensible view of organisational readiness, grounded in how people actually behave under pressure.
Built on Real Incidents, Not Theory
As a 24/7 CREST SOC and Incident Response provider, Maple’s experience in dealing with real life situations, and actively seeing and monitoring multiple environments gives us a vast amount of knowledge of both historical learning and also current threats. Our approach is deliberately challenging, realistic, and outcome-focused, ensuring organisations gain meaningful assurance rather than false confidence.
Board-Level Assurance That Stands Up Under Pressure
Board and leadership teams gain confidence in their ability to lead during a cyber incident.
Roles, responsibilities, and decision-making authority are clearly understood before an incident occurs.
Teams make timely, effective decisions even with limited information and high pressure.
Reduce the risk of delayed notifications, missteps, and regulatory scrutiny.
Improve alignment between technical responders and business stakeholders.
Generate credible evidence of preparedness for auditors, regulators, and insurers.
Whether you are validating an existing incident response plan, preparing for regulatory scrutiny, or seeking board-level assurance, our Incident Response Tabletop Exercises provide a low-risk, high-value way to test readiness before it matters.
Exercises can be delivered as standalone engagements or as part of a wider incident response and cyber resilience programme, Exercises are specifically tailored to your organisation’s sector, risk profile, and maturity, depending on the people who need to be involved:
Focus: Strategic decision-making, governance, risk appetite, regulatory and reputational impact.
Typical Participants: Board members, executives, CISO, General Counsel.
Focus: Tactical coordination, prioritisation, and cross-functional management.
Typical Participants: Heads of department, senior managers, team leaders.
Focus: Operational response, technical containment, investigation, and recovery.
Typical Participants: Technical incident responders, IT, security teams
Gain board-level assurance and confidence in your cyber incident response.
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