Cyber Tabletop: The Directors’ Breach Experience

In this interactive and participatory session, our group was guided through a tabletop exercise by an experienced data breach response lawyer from chapter sponsor Cooley. The exercise involved a data breach scenario based on real-life data breaches and was designed to challenge our problem-solving skills.

We split into groups representing typical incident response stakeholders: legal, forensic, communications, risk/senior management, and the board of directors. Each stakeholder team was guided by a relevant professional in each category. There were twists and turns, as in actual breaches, that provided a front-row seat to what really happens during a breach. This context was crucial for directors who would inevitably be involved in incident materiality assessments and 8-K and 10-K reporting decisions. Not to be missed – this was the same type of exercise that thousands of organizations undertook each year.