Tabletop Exercise Services

Practice the plan—before you need it

Realistic Drills That Turn Playbooks Into Action

Good incident plans fail without practice. Forgepath designs and facilitates role-specific tabletop exercises that mirror how threats unfold—initial detection, scoping, containment decisions, evidence handling, communication, and recovery sequencing. We tailor scenarios to your environment (endpoint, identity, cloud, SaaS) and guide participants through timed injects that surface decision bottlenecks, ownership gaps, tooling blind spots, and policy ambiguities.

You’ll leave with clear observations, prioritized improvements, and updated playbook steps—plus artifacts leaders can track to closure. Optional follow-ons include lightweight verification activities (e.g., sample restores, logging checks) agreed in scope.

Rehearse the hard parts.

Inside Your Tabletop Exercise

We simulate credible attacks, stress-test your plans, and turn findings into concrete upgrades for people, process, and technology.

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Drills your team will actually recognize.

Ransomware operations: initial access → privilege escalation → lateral movement → backup tampering → encryption/exfil.
Business Email Compromise (BEC): OAuth consent abuse, inbox rules, payment diversion, vendor spoofing.
Cloud account compromise: key/role misuse, control-plane changes, data access from atypical regions, audit gaps.
Web/app intrusion: credential reuse, WAF bypass, data extraction, noisy vs. quiet exfil routes.
Insider misuse: privilege creep, bulk data access, off-hours anomalies.

Make decisions under realistic pressure.

Participants: IR/SOC, IT/platform, security engineering, legal/privacy, comms, leadership.
Injects: evidence snippets, conflicting signals, vendor/customer inquiries, regulator questions.
Outcomes: who decides, with what information, on what timeline—and what gets stuck.

Turn rehearsal into measurable readiness.

Coordination: activation paths, call tree accuracy, owner clarity, escalation timing.
Evidence handling: preservation steps, chain-of-custody awareness, logging visibility.
Containment & recovery: safe actions, rollback paths, restore dependencies.
Communication: cadence, consistency, stakeholder alignment (internal/external).
Policy & tooling fit: gaps between documented playbooks and actual platform capabilities.

Why teams choose Forgepath

Key Benefits You Can Expect

Faster, Cleaner Response

Rehearsed activation and decision paths reduce confusion and delay.

Evidence-Safe Actions

Teams learn which steps stabilize incidents without destroying artifacts.

Clear Ownership

RACI gaps surface and get fixed before a real breach.

Better Playbooks

Updated, concise steps that reflect how your environment actually works.

Measurable Readiness

Concrete findings, owners, and acceptance criteria leaders can track.

Cloud Systems & Security Manager

Zero.health

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on our network and app security tests.
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Cloud Systems & Security Manager
Zero.health

Forgepath delivered outstanding service on both our network penetration test and application security assessment.

When a critical customer need arose, they quickly adjusted their schedule to meet our urgent timeline without compromising quality.

Their technical expertise, clear guidance, and hands-on remediation support helped us meet our EOY goals efficiently.

We were especially impressed by their flexibility, responsiveness, and professionalism throughout the process.

Chief Executive Officer

parsysco.com

Working With Forgepath

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner.
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Chief Executive Officer
parsysco.com

Forgepath separates themselves from the rest as they’re a true security partner to Parsysco. They took the time to understand our requirements and how things were working with our previous provider.

We were impressed by how quickly they formulated a new strategy and approach. They helped us identify our challenges and consistently brought forward solutions that were in Parsysco’s best interest.

Most vendors only care about selling something, Forgepath took the personal relationship and partnership approach that we value greatly.