SERVICE
OT Tabletop Exercises
Pressure-test your response plans, roles, and decision-making against realistic OT incident scenarios — before a real one arrives.
WHAT THIS SERVICE IS
An OTR³ tabletop exercise walks your team through a realistic OT/IT incident scenario in a facilitated, no-blame environment — surfacing gaps in plans, roles, and decision-making while the stakes are still hypothetical.
WHEN ORGANIZATIONS NEED IT
- Ransomware affecting IT systems that support OT operations
- A compromised engineering workstation
- An unauthorized change to control-system logic
- A compromised vendor remote-access session
- Loss of SCADA visibility
- An intrusion that moves from IT into OT
WHAT OTR³ PROVIDES
- Exercise design tailored to your environment and risk profile
- Facilitation by people who understand both the cybersecurity and OT/engineering sides of the scenario
- Participation from cybersecurity, IT, OT, engineering, operations, management, and relevant third parties/OEMs
- Structured observations during the exercise
- Documented lessons learned and improvement actions afterward
OT-SPECIFIC CONSIDERATIONS
A tabletop exercise that only involves the security team misses the point in OT. The exercises we design deliberately bring in engineering, operations, and management — because real incidents require decisions from all of them, often under time pressure.
ENGAGEMENT PROCESS
- 1
Design
We build a scenario relevant to your environment, systems, and risk profile.
- 2
Plan Logistics
We agree on participants, duration, and format — in person or remote.
- 3
Facilitate
We run the exercise, injecting realistic developments and tracking decisions made.
- 4
Observe
We note where plans held up, where they didn't, and where roles were unclear.
- 5
Report
We document lessons learned and specific improvement actions.
DELIVERABLES
- Exercise scenario documentation
- Facilitator observations
- Lessons learned report
- Prioritized improvement actions
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