Tabletop exercise
A walk-through of the worst plausible incident, step by step (who notices, who can pause the system, what is communicated, how fast the business reverts to a manual fallback), done before an incident occurs to surface the holes a written plan hides. Scales from a formal cross-team exercise at enterprise size to a ten-minute think-through at owner size.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 3 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Business AI Transformation.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A walk-through of the worst plausible incident, step by step (who notices, who can pause the system, what is communicated, how fast the business reverts to a manual fallback), done before an incident occurs to surface the holes a written plan hides. Scales from a formal cross-team exercise at enterprise size to a ten-minute think-through at owner size.
A low-cost rehearsal in which the people named in a playbook walk through a realistic AI incident scenario out loud to find gaps before a real attacker does; the core of the Drill-and-review stage.
A low-cost, discussion-based continuity test in which a team walks through the response to a scenario without touching any systems, surfacing decision points and gaps.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first 7 topics of every program are free with a free account.
- Security Governance for AI Deployments · AI Security Fundamentals, AI Literacy & Professional Conduct
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for AI · Risk, Resilience and Frontier AI, Business AI Transformation
- Capstone Phase 4 - The Blueprint and the Mandate · Capstone: Your Transformation Blueprint, Business AI Transformation
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.