Incident Response Tabletop Exercises

Practice your response before disruption hits.

Reduce response confusion with guided exercises shaped around your people, tools, and business risks.

Turn security concerns into clear next steps using plain-language support and practical action plans.

Strengthen continuity planning with structured scenarios that expose gaps before an incident happens.

Improve team coordination with response practice informed by PROTELI’s reliable help desk experience.

Get cost-effective readiness support from a full IT team instead of hiring a dedicated specialist.

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Trusted Guidance When Reliability Matters

Clients value responsive support, plain-language advice, and practical IT planning.

My company has been using PROTELI as an IT provider for the past year and a half since our firm relocated to NYC. They have been phenomenal to work with. Any time we reach out to them with any question or issue they are extremely responsive, usually within minutes of our request. They have worked with us on both our hardware and software needs, on our server and with email hosting and setup. They don’t provide cookie-cutters or one-fits-all service. They always listen to our needs and come up with creative solutions tailored specifically to our needs and requests. We are beyond satisfied with the services and the work done by PROTELI and highly recommend them to anyone in need of IT services.

Nuri F.
CFO | Financial Services Industry

Over the last 25 years I have worked with dozens of IT companies supporting 1000 of our client companies and rolling out complex enterprise systems. But I have never experienced the unique combination of technology expertise along with strategic planning and business acumen as I have experienced in working with PROTELI. They were very quickly able to understand our business, challenges and objectives and provide the best solutions for our company. I trust them implicitly and they have become invaluable to our organization.

Laura K.
CEO | Flexible Office & Co-working Industry

PROTELI simplifies the complicated, intricate processes of IT Management by being proactive, innovative and extremely responsive. Our Firm is growing rapidly, and we do so with confidence in knowing PROTELI is managing the IT infrastructure and expansion. We couldn’t be happier to have them on our team!

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CFO | Commodities Brokerage Industry

Each member from PROTELI is the most helpful, professional and knowledgeable individual I had the pleasure to work with. They always made sure to take care of our matters in a timely fashion and followed up to make sure our issues have been resolved. Not only did they resolve our issues, but they were also presentable in our client meetings which ranged from financial to corporate clients. We were able to trust them in finding the best solution for our business in every situation. We have used PROTELI since their inception and because they did such an amazing job in our NYC office, our CEO and COO decided to involve them in our locations in Florida as well. Without a doubt choosing PROTELI as our IT solutions support was the best decision we made for our company.

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Office Administrator / Flexible Office & Coworking Industry

Over the years, PROTELI has been an invaluable partner to our business, offering technical guidance and support that has allowed us to leverage the cloud and significantly reduce start-up costs. Their team is especially great at simplifying all the technical complexities into practical business decisions. The responsiveness of their support team has consistently been outstanding. Thanks for all that you do for us!

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Owner | Indoor Sports & Recreation Industry

Over the past decade, PROTELI has provided technical guidance and support for my multiple business ventures. Their approach is pragmatic, their helpdesk team is very responsive and helpful, and their prices are reasonable. They are a pleasure to work with and highly recommended.

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CFO | Collectible Design Gallery Industry

My firm has been working with PROTELI for over a decade. They are very responsive and able to think outside the box when needed. From minor IT issues to large projects, their team owns it and gets things done.

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Business Administrator | Investment Management Industry

PROTELI has not only been very responsive and helpful but everyone on the team is very kind. Their team is always available and solves our issues quickly and professionally. I highly recommend any business needing reliable and professional IT services!

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Administrator | Investment Advisory Industry

PROTELI has been an amazing partner to our firm for many years, supporting our IT, cybersecurity, and compliance needs. Very responsive and knowledgeable team with pragmatic and measured approach.

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Director of Compliance | Investment Management Industry

I have the pleasure of being a client of PROTELI for many years. Having the experience of interacting with a few of their peers as well and PROTELI hands down is the best in any comparison category.

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Director of Due Diligence | Alternative Investment Management Industry

What Your Tabletop Exercise Includes

Practical response planning support

PROTELI starts by learning how your business works, including key systems, decision makers, vendors, remote work needs, and customer-facing operations. This discovery keeps the exercise realistic and useful, not generic.

The result is a focused scenario that reflects likely business disruption points, giving your team a practical way to test decisions, communication, and continuity steps before a real incident creates pressure.

A tabletop exercise works best when the scenario feels real but remains manageable. PROTELI builds plain-language situations around events such as account misuse, unavailable systems, suspicious emails, data exposure concerns, or vendor-related disruption.

Each scenario is designed to help your team discuss what happens next, who needs to be involved, what information is needed, and where current processes may slow down response.

During the exercise, PROTELI guides participants through the scenario step by step, keeping the conversation practical and business-focused. The session helps leaders, managers, and support teams understand their roles without relying on confusing technical language.

This approach encourages better decisions under pressure, clearer handoffs, and stronger coordination between internal staff, outside vendors, legal contacts, and IT support resources.

Incident response depends on communication as much as technology. PROTELI helps your team review who should be contacted, what should be shared, when updates should happen, and how messages should be handled for employees, customers, partners, and vendors.

By walking through these choices in advance, your business can reduce mixed messages, avoid delays, and maintain a calmer response when continuity and trust matter most.

After the exercise, PROTELI turns discussion points into a clear list of findings and recommended next steps. These may include documentation updates, backup review, access changes, help desk workflows, security training, or improved escalation paths.

The focus is on cost-effective improvements that reduce recurring risk and support long-term reliability, rather than creating a long report that is hard to act on.

Tabletop exercises can support broader cybersecurity, compliance, and cyber insurance readiness by showing that your business is actively preparing for disruption. PROTELI helps connect the exercise to practical documentation and operational follow-through.

Your team gains a clearer response process, stronger evidence of planning, and a better foundation for future improvements across security, backups, help desk support, and business continuity.

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Team collaborating during Incident Response Tabletop Exercises to enhance decision-making skills before a crisis.

Practice Better Decisions Before an Incident

An incident response tabletop exercise helps your leadership, operations, and support teams practice what to do when a security issue, outage, or data concern appears. The goal is not to overwhelm anyone with technical detail. It is to make the response clear, calm, and repeatable.

PROTELI brings a practical mix of technology expertise, strategic planning, and business acumen to each exercise. Scenarios are shaped around your real workflows, systems, vendors, and decision points so your team can identify gaps, assign responsibilities, and make better business decisions before pressure is high.

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Team members collaborating during Incident Response Tabletop Exercises, clarifying roles and enhancing communication.

Clear Roles, Better Communication, Less Guesswork

Strong response planning starts with knowing who does what, when decisions must be made, and how business operations continue during disruption.

  • Clarify leadership roles during a security or technology incident.
  • Review communication steps for employees, customers, vendors, and partners.
  • Identify gaps in backups, access controls, documentation, and escalation paths.
  • Support compliance and cyber insurance readiness with documented response planning.
  • Turn exercise findings into practical improvements your team can actually use.

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A Practical Exercise Built Around Your Business

PROTELI’s approach is built for small and mid-sized businesses that need useful guidance without unnecessary complexity. Exercises are facilitated in plain language, with enough structure to test the plan and enough flexibility to reflect how your business actually works.

Founded by Martin Propper and Eugene Boutenko, PROTELI combines corporate IT discipline with startup resourcefulness. That blend helps turn incident response planning into a practical business process, not a document that sits unused. You leave with clearer priorities, better coordination, and a more confident path forward.

Frequently Asked Questions

Incident response tabletop exercises are guided practice sessions where your leadership and team walk through realistic security or outage scenarios. The focus is on clarifying who does what, reviewing communication steps, and exposing gaps in your process. These sessions use your actual systems, workflows, and vendors so the exercise feels relevant and actionable. You gain a clearer understanding of your response plan without technical overwhelm, helping you make confident decisions before a real incident occurs.

Incident response tabletop exercises are designed to make your response clear and repeatable under pressure. By practicing roles, responsibilities, and decision points ahead of time, you minimize uncertainty and reduce the risk of missed steps. These exercises identify gaps in communication and documentation so you can improve them before a disruption, making your team better prepared to act quickly and confidently when it matters most.

The process begins with a review of your current operations, key contacts, and risk areas. Next, a tailored scenario is developed that reflects your specific workflows, systems, and business needs. During the session, a facilitator guides your team through the scenario, asking questions and prompting decisions as events unfold. Afterward, you receive practical recommendations and a summary of next steps to further strengthen your incident response plan.

Most tabletop exercises are completed within two to four hours, depending on your team size and scenario complexity. Pricing is designed to be cost-effective for small and mid-sized businesses, giving you access to a full IT team without the expense of hiring a dedicated specialist. You receive a clear scope and fixed price up front, so there are no surprises or hidden fees.

This approach is built specifically for small and mid-sized businesses that need practical, plain-language support. Exercises are facilitated by a team that learns your business in depth, ensuring scenarios and recommendations are relevant to your actual operations. You benefit from a proven blend of technology expertise, strategic planning, and business acumen, with a focus on proactive, personalized IT support and long-term risk reduction.