Tabletop Exercises
Practice your incident response plan before you have to use it
What this engagement covers
The service
Facilitated scenario-based tabletop exercises that stress-test your IR plan, expose communication gaps, and train executives and technical responders on the decisions they'll actually need to make.
What we test
Ransomware, BEC, insider threat, third-party compromise, cloud tenant takeover, and regulator-focused data-breach scenarios - tailored to your industry and threat model.
Scoping & Assessment Depth
Black Box Assessment
Zero-KnowledgeSimulates an external adversary targeting Tabletop Exercises with no internal credentials, source code, or architecture documentation. Assesses perimeter exposure, unauthenticated attack paths, and edge resilience.
Gray Box Assessment (Recommended)
CredentialedSimulates an authenticated user, tenant, or insider threat within Tabletop Exercises. We evaluate role segregation, authorization boundaries, privilege escalation, and business logic flaws across user tiers.
White Box / Source-Assisted
Full-KnowledgeConducted with direct access to architecture schematics, configuration files, and API/code documentation. Eliminates blind spots and provides exhaustive coverage of security mechanisms governing Tabletop Exercises.
Attack Surface & Vulnerability Vectors
Unclear escalation authority
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Unclear escalation authority across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Missing third-party vendor contacts
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Missing third-party vendor contacts across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Communication plan gaps (legal, PR, exec)
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Communication plan gaps (legal, PR, exec) across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Assumed but unverified backup recovery
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Assumed but unverified backup recovery across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Regulatory notification timeline confusion
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Regulatory notification timeline confusion across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
Insurance claim process friction
Rigorous testing and validation to uncover Insurance claim process friction across your Tabletop Exercises environment. We produce deterministic proof-of-concept exploits to verify exploitability without risking service stability.
How we run it
Pre-exercise interviews to calibrate the scenario, facilitated roleplay with injects, debrief with observations, and written report with prioritized improvements to your IR plan.
Pre-exercise interviews and scenario design
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting pre-exercise interviews and scenario design across your tabletop exercises deployment.
Facilitated roleplay with injects
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting facilitated roleplay with injects across your tabletop exercises deployment.
Decision point capture
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting decision point capture across your tabletop exercises deployment.
Hot wash debrief
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting hot wash debrief across your tabletop exercises deployment.
After-action report production
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting after-action report production across your tabletop exercises deployment.
Improvement tracking
Rigorous technical execution, boundary verification, and manual exploitation testing targeting improvement tracking across your tabletop exercises deployment.
What you receive
Findings land in your tracker as you go, not only in a PDF at the end. Retest is in scope, not a change order.
- Custom scenario tailored to your threat model
- Facilitated 2-4 hour exercise
- Participant debrief session
- Written after-action report
- Prioritized plan improvement backlog
- Annual or semi-annual cadence available
What we usually find
The issues this engagement surfaces most often. Yours will differ, but this is the shape of it.
Who this is for
Auditor-Ready Compliance Crosswalk
| Framework | Control Section | Testing Evidence & Report Deliverable |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | CC4.1, CC7.1, CC7.2 | Technical testing evidence validating system boundaries, access restrictions, and vulnerability identification controls. |
| ISO/IEC 27001:2022 | Control A.8.8 & A.8.20 | Management of technical vulnerabilities and network security verification through independent technical assessments. |
| HIPAA Security Rule | 45 CFR § 164.308(a)(8) | Formal technical evaluation verifying the integrity of ePHI safeguards, network segmentation, and privileged access safeguards. |
| PCI DSS v4.0 | Requirement 11.4 & 11.4.3 | Adversary-driven external and internal penetration testing with application-layer validation and vulnerability remediation verification. |
| NIST Cybersecurity Framework | PR.AC, DE.CM, RS.AN | Technical testing verifying access controls, anomaly detection efficacy, and incident response mitigation capabilities. |
| EU NIS2 Directive | Article 21 (Cyber Risk Management) | Technical vulnerability validation and supply chain security verification for essential and important entities. |
Findings are mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, NIS2, so the report drops into an audit package rather than needing to be translated first. If you need the readiness work behind one of those, that is a separate engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
Direct answers on scoping, methodology, compliance validation, and deliverables.
Our Tabletop Exercises service combines deep manual testing with automated verification. We cover: Custom scenario tailored to your threat model, Facilitated 2-4 hour exercise, Participant debrief session, Written after-action report, Prioritized plan improvement backlog. Every engagement includes reproducible proof-of-concept exploits, developer-ready remediation guidance, and a free retest.
Yes. Findings are directly mapped to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF, NIS2 control requirements. The resulting report is auditor-ready and formatted for immediate submission to SOC 2 CPAs, PCI QSAs, and enterprise vendor risk assessment teams.
Yes. Every Lorikeet Security engagement includes free retesting within 30 to 60 days to validate that your remediation patches successfully resolve the identified vulnerabilities before your final report is issued.
Typical active testing turnaround is 2-3 weeks from kickoff to report, with critical findings reported immediately via your Talon portal so your engineering team can begin remediation without waiting for the final PDF.
Pricing starts from $8,500. We scope the engagement in one call based on your environment's surface area, user roles, and complexity, providing a transparent, fixed-price quote with no hidden change orders.
Scope it in one call
Tell us what is in scope and we come back with a fixed price and a start date. No discovery-call maze, no hourly estimate that moves.
