Gamified Tabletop Exercises for Effective Disaster Recovery Testing: Preparing for Disasters with Dice

Tabletop exercises are a common way to test disaster recovery and business continuity plans, but they can also be some of the most dry and boring meetings any professional can attend. Following a set script with no variation can cause folks to lose interest and question the value of such exercises, even when they are required for compliance frameworks such as SOC2. What is a security professional to do? Simple—introduce variability by adding dice!

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