In a perfect world, your organization would be completely safe from cyber attacks. Unfortunately, that’s not the world in which we live. As attacks continuously evolve to become more sophisticated and reputational stakes increase, it’s no longer enough to simply focus on prevention. Comprehensive cyber training programs must also address what your organization will do if a breach occurs.
An “incident response” (IR) plan is a critical piece of cyber range training. Yet according to Wendi Whitmore, Global Lead for X-Force Incident Response Intelligence Services (IRIS) at IBM, simply creating an outline on paper is not enough. The most successful organizations will incorporate “immersive, real-world training scenarios.”
Such scenarios are designed to accurately represent what responding to a breach in real time is actually like – from data analysis to dealing with the press to customer communication and beyond. The goal? To empower everyone participating in the simulation to leave better prepared than they were when they began. Your people, after all, are your organization’s first line of defense.
“We wanted to mature the experience for our clients from PowerPoint-driven tabletop discussions to real-world simulated attacks that test multiple dimensions and stakeholders within environments,” writes Whitmore for IBM.
Read Whitmore’s full piece, Why Cyber Range Training Should Be Top of Mind for Your Security Teams, on the IBM blog to learn more about scenario-driven, simulated cyber range and how your team can implement similar training.
