Tabletop Exercises. 16.5. Network architecture design 16.6. Hardware procurement
Tabletop Exercises. Symantec will use a table top exercise (TTX) to test and refine Customer’s existing incident response plan or process. The TTX is performed in a conference room where Customer’s key stakeholders talk through the incident response plan or process and their response to a particular incident without the need to actually deploy Customer equipment or resources. During the TTX gaps and weaknesses in the incident response plan or process may be identified. After the TTX, a debriefing will occur to review findings and create a plan for improving the incident response process.
Tabletop Exercises. Disaster Preparedness and Response The MBDS Network has held in-country exercises for over six years; in March 2007 participating countries joined forces to test their preparedness as a region.6 Senior government officials from the MBDS Network countries, as well as representatives from the UN, UNICEF, UNSIC, and UNOCHA,7 participated in the first-ever simulation exercise designed to test responses to a pandemic influenza emergency in the region. Using techniques similar to those in modern war-gaming, the tabletop exercise was designed to xxxxxx cooperation within the region seen as the most likely source of a potentially devastating pandemic, such as avian flu. The exercise also helped identify gaps and weaknesses in systems for detecting, monitoring, tracking, and containing the spread of disease. Throughout the planning process, health officials from neighboring MBDS countries were invited to participate in national exercises, resulting in a rich informal exchange of strategies and approaches to rapid detection, response, and communication later adopted by other countries. This process—new to most countries—helped catalyze the testing of national pandemic preparedness and response plans in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, and advanced ongoing 3 ASEAN countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Plus-3 countries: China, Japan, and South Korea.
Tabletop Exercises. The Town arranges training and exercise sessions for the DRC to improve emergency response preparedness and the CEP. Such sessions are planned to be completed within a total of about eight (8) hours time and can be conducted in two half-day sessions. The Town will determine the scheduling of such sessions and particular emergency response topic(s) to be addressed by the sessions. The Contractor will:
Tabletop Exercises. A tabletop exercise (TTX) is a low-stress event aimed to trigger a discussion of a simulated situation. TTX participants are encouraged to discuss issues in detail and to make decisions using slow-paced problem-solving methods driven by the instructor as opposed to the spontaneous, fast-paced ones typical for the actual or simulated emergency conditions. TTXs are introduced at early stages, in parallel to functional and full-scale exercises. A constructive problem-solving is the goal of such exercises. A copy of the appropriate emergency plan and other pertinent materials are available for the reference during a TTX. A person is assigned to act as a recorder documenting actions taken by participant during a TTX; these notations serve as a reference tool for evaluating the exercises. TTXs are designed to involve the participants in understanding the problem and the protocols/functions/operations he/she has to deal with. It enables to explicitly understand how these protocols are fitting in their everyday life and organisation. A TTX may involve multi-agencies as it enables to understand each other’s limitations, expectations, needs and capabilities, forces and weaknesses. A TTX begins with a briefing by the facilitator as to orient both the participants and simulators to the TTX objectives, ground rules, and communication and simulation procedures. The scenario narrative is then presented in an intelligence briefing. The scenario is generally invented and describes an event or emergency incident bringing participants up to a simulated ‘present moment’ in time. From there, a virtual simulator is used to provide realistic materials and visions suitable to describe the subsequent interactive pacing of events decisions and effects. A TTX should not be perceived as ‘real time’: some events may be accelerated if not conveying an interest for the discussion, others may be slowed down in order to expose inner mechanisms, or to simply provide enough time for discussion. The constructive and interactive problem-solving is usually performed by a single instructor, who teaches a group of heterogeneous participants. In the frame of the first HyResponse workshop that took place at ENSOSP on the 3-4 September 2014, a simple presentation set-up has been provided as a TTX where the workshop participants played roles of hydrogen ‘experts’. The set-up was designed around three virtual access points: The first responders team, which had access to the VR from their own point ...
