Cyber Incident Tabletop Exercises

Speaker: Dmitry Bezrukov — Cybersecurity Consultant and Incident Response Tabletop Exercise Facilitator

Topic: Cyber Incident Tabletop Exercises. Preparing Your Organization to Respond When It Matters Most.

Synopsis: Cyber incidents can disrupt business operations, compromise sensitive data, and challenge an organization’s ability to make critical decisions under pressure. Having an Incident Response Plan is important, but having a plan doesn’t necessarily mean an organization is prepared to execute it.

This presentation explores how Cyber Incident Tabletop Exercises help organizations evaluate their incident response capabilities in a realistic, discussion-based environment. We will cover how tabletop exercises work, who should participate, how to develop relevant scenarios, and how to identify gaps in incident response plans, communication, decision-making, and recovery processes.

Attendees will learn how to turn exercise findings into actionable improvements that strengthen cyber resilience and help their organizations respond more effectively when an incident occurs.

Speaker Bio: Dmitry Bezrukov is a cybersecurity consultant with 19 years of experience in cybersecurity, cyber risk management, and incident response. He is the founder of CybersecurityTabletopExercise.com, where he helps organizations strengthen their preparedness for cyber incidents through practical, discussion-based tabletop exercises.

Dmitry began his cybersecurity career protecting SaaS web applications used by major Fortune 200 companies. He later founded and led a Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), bringing his former employer on board as his first client and delivering outsourced security services. During his career, he supported customer security reviews and audits involving major enterprises, including Amazon, Apple, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Nike, and GE.

He subsequently served as a Senior Technical Security Advisor at a cyber insurance and cyber risk quantification company, where he helped clients improve incident response preparedness through tabletop exercises and supported the application of cyber risk quantification to business decision-making.

Today, Dmitry focuses on helping mid-sized organizations prepare for, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents. He also provides cybersecurity consulting and fractional vCISO services.

Meeting Details: This will be a hybrid meeting (both in-person and on-line). You may attend remotely via Zoom (see the meeting ID below) or attend in person at Capsity, 3808 Broadway, Sacramento CA. Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

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Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84186623031?pwd=EtHkuqg0it61fhLsaZIpC8aCHldHG9.1

Meeting ID: 841 8662 3031
Passcode: 668146