Tabletop Incident Response Exercises

Interactive “Dungeons & Dragons”-Style Exercises for Real-World Cyber Incident Preparedness

At NotLAN, we offer interactive tabletop incident response exercises designed for SOC teams, security leadership, and non-technical employees, inspired by the dynamics of Dungeons & Dragons–style gameplay. These are not passive workshops. Participants are placed inside realistic cyber crisis scenarios where they must make decisions in real time, deal with uncertainty, and experience the consequences of their choices, exactly as they would during a real incident. The result: engaged teams, measurable readiness, and audit-ready evidence.

Cross-functional cybersecurity and incident response teams participating in a tabletop exercise, analyzing real-time dashboards with threat intelligence, metrics, and regulatory requirements including GDPR, NIS2, and DORA.
Multidisciplinary incident response teams participating in a cybersecurity tabletop exercise, discussing response actions while monitoring live threat intelligence and security metrics.

What This Service Delivers

Key Benefits You Gain from Our Tabletop Exercises
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‍• Meets Regulatory Demands
Our tabletop exercises directly support compliance requirements from GDPR, NIS2, DORA, HIPAA, and other incident-response and resilience frameworks. They demonstrate that your organization regularly tests its incident response and crisis management capabilities, as required by regulators.

• Audit-Ready Evidence
Each exercise produces structured documentation that can be shared with auditors, regulators, and risk & compliance teams. This includes exercise scope and objectives, decisions made and timelines, identified gaps, and improvement actions—providing clear proof that incident response plans are actively tested, not just written.

• Identifies Policy & Process Gaps
By simulating realistic attack and crisis scenarios, the exercise reveals missing or unclear procedures, ineffective escalation paths, conflicting responsibilities, and gaps between technical response and legal/compliance actions. These weaknesses are uncovered before they turn into real violations or regulatory findings.

Regulatory-focused cybersecurity tabletop exercise environment showing compliance dashboards for GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and HIPAA.

Practical Training on Legal & Notification Obligations

Hands-On Learning for Critical Decisions Under Pressure

Participants are trained through practice, not slides on:

   • Breach notification timelines
   • Regulator and authority communication
   • Internal escalation requirements
   • Executive and legal decision-making under pressure

This is especially critical for GDPR (72-hour rule), DORA, and NIS2 obligations.

Incident response tabletop exercise focused on legal and breach notification training, with teams practicing regulatory communication and executive decision-making under pressure.

Gamified & Role-Based Learning

The Immersive Experience That Makes the Difference

Participants assume real roles such as:

    • SOC analyst
     • Incident commander
     • Legal & compliance
     • Communications / PR
     • Executive leadership
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The facilitator acts as the Game Master, dynamically adapting the scenario based on participant decisions making the experience immersive, memorable, and highly effective.

Role-based incident response tabletop exercise showing an incident simulation board with SOC, incident command, legal and compliance, communications, and facilitator roles.

Who This Is For

Ideal Audiences to Maximize the Exercise Value

    • SOC and Blue Teams
    • Incident Response Teams
    • Legal & Compliance
    • Executives and Crisis Committees
    • Company-wide security awareness programs

Cybersecurity incident response tabletop exercise designed for SOC teams, incident response teams, legal and compliance, executives, and security awareness programs.

Guaranteed Evidence & Compliance

Professional Documentation Ready for Auditors and Regulators

Each exercise delivers:

    • Defined scope and objectives
    • Chronological record of decisions and timelines
    • Identified gaps and recommended improvement actions
    • Clear, structured evidence demonstrating regular testing of incident response plans
    • Perfect for audits, regulators, and risk & compliance teams.

Incident response tabletop exercise documentation showing defined objectives, decision timelines, identified gaps, and structured evidence prepared for audits and compliance reviews.

Ready to Transform Your Preparedness?

Schedule Your Custom NotLAN Tabletop Exercise Today

Contact us to design a tailored scenario for your organization (ransomware, insider threat, cloud breach, AI misuse, and more) and take your incident response maturity to the next level.

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