Third-Party Breach Event Simulation
Documentation for facilitators including instructions, handbooks, feedback form, executive briefing templates, and lessons learned templates.
Revision Date: April 18, 2025
Our tabletop toolkit helps security leaders run effective incident simulations. These pre-built templates guide you through planning, facilitation, participant engagement, feedback collection, and post-exercise lessons learned analysis. Designed for both internal security teams and external security consultants, this material is ready-to-use for self-facilitated workshops or client-facing engagements
rdArguably one of the most important tabletop excercises your company will do - This simulation guides your team through responding when a trusted vendor or partner suffers a security incident that compromises your data or disrupts your operations. The exercise helps you assess your readiness to manage the unique challenges of third-party breaches, including rapid incident coordination, internal and external communications, and regulatory obligations. It includes practical checklists for reviewing contracts, engaging vendors, and documenting decisions so you can protect your business and maintain customer trust.
Whether admitted or not, nearly every company has critical reliance on third party supply-chain to do business. From manufactoring, to outsourcing, to CRM systems - most organizations have critical data stored offsite at third parties and/or have connectivity between companies. This creates significant risk, as we've seen in recent news (ie: SolarWinds, Springboot, etc.) and other recent security incidents that impacted global companies, infrastructure and even major cloud platform providers. In this tabletop exercise, we walk thru a scenario where a vendor or partner suffers an incident that impacts your data or impacts your operations.
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Tabletop Toolkit Materials (Sample set)
| Resource Name | File Type | File Size | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction Letter | 120 KB | EN | |
| Exercise Planner Handbook | .DOCX | 723 KB | EN |
| Facilitator Guide & / Evaluator Handbook | .DOCX | 629 KB | EN |
| Participant Invitation Letter Template | .DOCX | 87 KB | EN |
| Participant Feedback Template | .DOCX | 253 KB | EN |
| Exercise Briefing Slide Deck Template | .PPTX | 499 KB | EN |
| Lessons Learned & After Action Report Template | .DOCX | 450 KB | EN |
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