Resource
Tabletop Exercise Kit
Scenario outlines, roles, injects, and an after-action report format, built to produce a defensible record of incident readiness.
Practice is part of compliance.
When buyers ask about incident response, they want more than a policy. They want evidence you’ve practiced: tabletop records, training completion, and follow-up remediation.
This kit gives you a repeatable tabletop structure: scenarios, roles, injects, and an after-action report format you can export.
Use it to run practice that produces a defensible record, not just a meeting you can’t prove happened.
Scenarios included
- Phishing to account takeover
- Ransomware with business disruption
- Vendor breach impacting customer data
- Credential exposure and suspicious login alerts
Roles & inject examples
- Roles: facilitator, incident commander, comms lead, legal, observers
- Injects: customer questions, internal alerts, vendor notices, media inquiry prompts
- Timed timeline: decisions, actions, outcomes recorded in sequence
After-action report structure
- Summary of scenario and objectives
- Timeline of key events, decisions, and actions
- What worked / what didn’t
- Gaps and remediation tasks (owners + due dates)
- Evidence artifacts to attach for audits/buyer reviews
How Aurora implements this
- Run tabletop simulations and capture timelines, outcomes, and evidence artifacts.
- Turn gaps into owned remediation work with due dates and follow-up proof.
- Export readiness records buyers and auditors can review without back-and-forth.
Practice now. Prove later.
Aurora turns tabletop exercises into exportable readiness records tied to remediation.