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Your Tabletop Exercise Lied to You

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Your Tabletop Exercise Lied to You

A new series examines the gap between tabletop exercises and real ransomware recovery outcomes, revealing that organizations with backups, incident response plans, and cyber insurance faced 22 days to recovery in a studied case. The piece suggests that simulations often fail to account for complexities that emerge during actual incidents.

Why it matters: Organizations relying on tabletop exercises to validate ransomware readiness may be overconfident in their recovery timelines and capabilities; practitioners should review whether their simulations adequately model the friction that extends real-world recovery by weeks.

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