Tabletop Exercise (TTX)
We design and facilitate custom tabletop exercises for executive and technical teams that simulate real-world pressure, cross-team coordination and the operational realities of modern threats.
Find the Gaps Before Adversaries Do
Tabletop exercises are one of the most effective ways for organizations to validate their security readiness, strengthen the speed and accuracy of decision-making, and expose gaps before adversaries do.
White Knight Labs’ tabletop exercise (TTX) provides a structured, professionally facilitated way to test your organization’s ability to detect, respond to and recover from critical security events.
What We Deliver
Custom Scenario Engineering
Scenarios aligned to your environment, industry and threat profile.
Executive-Level Facilitation
Facilitation that drives clarity, accountability and realistic decision-making.
Cross-Functional Participation
Exercises designed to include IT, security, legal, HR, operations and the executive leadership team.
Inject-Based Progression
Injects that progressively reveal gaps in process, tooling, communication and governance.
Real-Time Maturity Scoring
Scoring across detection, response, containment and recovery as the exercise unfolds.
Actionable After-Action Reporting
A report with prioritized recommendations your teams can act on.
Optional Follow-On Validation
Red team, purple team or control-specific testing to verify improvements.
Exercise Formats
Executive Tabletop
For leadership and the board: crisis decision-making, regulatory notification, legal escalation and public communication under pressure.
Technical Tabletop
For security and IT teams: detection, triage, containment and recovery decisions worked through step by step.
Cross-Functional Participation
Executives and technical teams together, testing hand-offs, escalation paths and coordination across the organization.
Scenarios Tailored to Your Environment
Every exercise is built around your organization. Choose from our scenario library or let us engineer a scenario around your specific threat profile.
Ransomware & Business Interruption
Rapid encryption of critical systems · Double extortion with data theft and leak-site pressure · Cloud-focused ransomware targeting S3, cloud storage or SaaS platforms · Operational shutdown impacting customer-facing services
Identity Compromise
Compromised IAM role leading to privilege escalation · MFA fatigue attack resulting in unauthorized access · Lateral movement across multi-cloud or hybrid environments · Misconfiguration exploitation (public buckets, exposed secrets, undetected drift)
Insider Threat
Privileged employee exfiltrating sensitive data · Contractor or vendor misusing access · Malicious or negligent insider sabotaging systems or deleting logs · Social engineering of internal staff
Supply Chain Breach
Compromise of a critical third-party supplier · Malicious update or dependency injection · Vendor remote access exploited for lateral movement · Third-party outage impacting business continuity
OT & ICS Disruption
Unauthorized command execution on industrial controllers · Network segmentation failure enabling OT compromise from IT systems · Safety system malfunction triggered by adversarial activity · Loss of visibility into critical operational telemetry
AI / Agentic System Failure
AI agent taking unsafe automated actions · Model manipulation leading to incorrect operational decisions · Sensitive data exposure through agent workflows or LLMs · Drift-induced misalignment causing business impact
Executive Crisis Management
Coordinated cyber and reputational attacks · Regulatory notification and legal escalation · Media pressure and public communication challenges · Board-level decision-making under stress
Sector-Specific
Custom-developed scenarios that apply specifically to your industry, such as aviation, healthcare, finance, retail, logistics or technology.
Zero-Day Crisis
Fast-moving, high-impact events that test coordination, triage, response and communication under extreme uncertainty, incomplete intelligence, operational pressure, evolving guidance and immediate expectations from regulators and investors.
What the Exercise Reveals
After a White Knight Labs tabletop exercise, your leadership and technical teams will understand how they perform under pressure, and what must be improved before a real incident occurs. Each exercise exposes gaps in process, tooling, communication and governance, and scores your maturity across detection, response, containment and recovery.
Engagement Process
Discover
Understand your environment, industry, threat profile, objectives and participants.
Scenario Engineering
Build a custom scenario and inject timeline aligned to your risks and teams.
Facilitation
Run the exercise with executive-level facilitation, inject-based progression and real-time maturity scoring.
After-Action Report
Deliver findings and prioritized recommendations, with optional follow-on red team, purple team or control-specific validation.
Why Run a Tabletop Exercise?
Incidents rarely fail because of one technical control. They fail because of unclear ownership, slow decisions and broken communication between teams. A tabletop exercise lets you practise those decisions in a safe setting, so that when a real incident happens, your people already know their roles, their escalation paths and their next move.
Sleep better at night
RISK REDUCTION
Our risk reduction strategy melds unparalleled technical acumen with a client-focused approach to deliver targeted, cost-effective, and accessible solutions that fortify your organization against the ever- evolving cyber threat landscape.
BUSINESS INTEGRITY
We leverage our cybersecurity expertise to safeguard your business integrity, ensuring you operate securely, move forward confidently, and build trust in an interconnected digital world.
DATA PROTECTION
We deploy cutting-edge cybersecurity measures and personalized strategies to offer unwavering data protection, reinforcing our commitment to preserving your company’s invaluable digital assets.
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