Most SEC-registered firms can produce an incident response plan. Far fewer can produce evidence that anyone has ever tested it. That gap is becoming one of the more consequential distinctions in a cybersecurity exam, because the SEC has made clear that it judges incident response by how a firm actually reacts — not by what is written in a binder.
A tabletop exercise is how a firm closes that gap. It is also one of the least understood and most undervalued controls in the entire program.
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